{"id":10096,"date":"2015-03-05T10:25:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T15:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10096"},"modified":"2015-03-05T10:25:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T15:25:25","slug":"cubs-sign-reliever-phil-coke-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/03\/05\/cubs-sign-reliever-phil-coke-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs sign reliever Phil Coke to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4718\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4718\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/philcoke.jpg\" alt=\"Hannah Foslien\/Getty Images North America\" width=\"594\" height=\"428\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/philcoke.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/philcoke-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/philcoke-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah Foslien\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nRelief pitcher Phil Coke held out for a major league deal this winter but with no offers coming has accepted a minor league deal with the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>The former Detroit Tigers relief pitcher drew interest from multiple teams but none of them were willing to guarantee him a big league salary for the 2015 season after he posted a 3.88 ERA and a 41\/20 K\/BB ratio in 58 innings last season with the Tigers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source: Coke to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cubs?src=hash\">#Cubs<\/a> on minor-league deal.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/573499331841519617\">March 5, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A left hander, Coke has proven to be especially effective against left handers. He should be able to lock down a role with the Cubs in Spring Training.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Coke has appeared in 383 games dating back to the 2008 season owning a 4.18 ERA and a 1.43 WHIP during that span.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relief pitcher Phil Coke held out for a major league deal this winter but with no offers coming has accepted a minor league deal with the Chicago Cubs. The former Detroit Tigers relief pitcher drew interest from multiple teams but none of them were willing to guarantee him a big league salary for the 2015 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,503,501,475],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-cubs","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-phil-coke"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10097,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions\/10097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10096"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}