{"id":835,"date":"2010-06-04T13:25:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T17:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=835"},"modified":"2010-06-04T13:25:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T17:25:47","slug":"indians-designate-veteran-wright-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2010\/06\/04\/indians-designate-veteran-wright-for-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians designate veteran Wright for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?iid=8471401&amp;term=%5c%22jamey+wright\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/7\/6\/4\/5\/MLB_Indians_at_dfec.jpg?adImageId=13097759&amp;imageId=8471401\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MLB: Indians at Tigers APR 9\" width=\"234\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a>Jamey Wright&#8217;s time in the bullpen for the Cleveland Indians appears to be over. The journeyman reliever who had made a history of winning roster spots out of spring training had a 5.48 ERA,  1.59 WHIP and a 9\/9 K\/BB ratio over 18 relief appearances with  the Tribe.<\/p>\n<p>Wright spent last season as a member of the Kansas City Royals and had previous stops in Texas, Colorado, St. Louis, Milwaukee and San Fransisco. He has a career line of 83-117 with a 5.03 ERA in 438 big league appearances.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;margin-left:5px\"><\/div>\n<p>There doesn&#8217;t appear to be a ton of interest for him on a big league roster but if he chooses to accept a minor league assignment there&#8217;s a fair chance some team will call him up for a job in middle relief.\u00a0 Wright has pitched his best baseball over the last four years of his career since being used strictly as a middle reliever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamey Wright&#8217;s time in the bullpen for the Cleveland Indians appears to be over. The journeyman reliever who had made a history of winning roster spots out of spring training had a 5.48 ERA, 1.59 WHIP and a 9\/9 K\/BB ratio over 18 relief appearances with the Tribe. Wright spent last season as a member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,152,284],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cleveland-indians","10":"tag-jamey-wright"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}