{"id":88,"date":"2009-10-13T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T17:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2009-10-13T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T17:48:10","slug":"clearing-up-kris-medlens-role-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2009\/10\/13\/clearing-up-kris-medlens-role-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing up Kris Medlen&#8217;s role in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:right;margin-left:5px\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=kris%20medlen&amp;iid=4857820\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/b\/2\/a\/7\/RockiesBraves_e956.JPG?adImageId=5423443&amp;imageId=4857820\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rockies-Braves\" width=\"234\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a>The majority of Kris Medlen\u2019s\u00a0 minor league career was spent as a late inning reliever. He picked up saves, racked up strike out numbers and held the opposition off base. Somewhere though things got a little crossed and Medlen was move into the role of a starter for part of 2008 and began his 2009 minor league campaign in the same role.<\/p>\n<p>I recently took the time to write a full review of <a href=\"http:\/\/fanhuddle.com\/atlantabraves\/2009\/10\/13\/clearing-up-kris-medlens-role-in-2010\/\">the roles Medlen pitched in 2009<\/a> over at Braving Baseball.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unless Medlen is traded or three guys in our starting rotation show up injured at spring training there is no way Kris Medlen ends up in a rotation on a major league team this spring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of Kris Medlen\u2019s\u00a0 minor league career was spent as a late inning reliever. He picked up saves, racked up strike out numbers and held the opposition off base. Somewhere though things got a little crossed and Medlen was move into the role of a starter for part of 2008 and began his 2009 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,59,371],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kris-medlen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}