{"id":11696,"date":"2019-11-04T17:14:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T22:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11696"},"modified":"2019-11-04T17:14:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T22:14:27","slug":"brewers-trade-anderson-to-blue-jays-decline-option-on-thames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2019\/11\/04\/brewers-trade-anderson-to-blue-jays-decline-option-on-thames\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers trade Anderson to Blue Jays, decline option on Thames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6259.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11695\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6259.jpg 620w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6259-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Brewers made some maneuvers on Monday cutting their payroll by $15 million for 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Right-handed pitcher Chase Anderson was traded to the Blue Jays in exchange for minor leaguer Chad Spanberger.<\/p>\n<p>The team also declined a $7.5 million option on Eric Thames, paging him a $1 million buyout instead.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Anderson appeared in 32 games &#8211; 27 starts &#8211; for the Brewers going 8-4 with a 4.21 ERA. The Brewers were said to be leaning toward declining his 2020 option which would have cost $8.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Thames, 32, hit .247 with 25 home runs last year and has hit 59 in the three years since a stay in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The Brewers also exercised a $1.85 million option on catcher Manny Pina, who would have received a $150,000 buyout if it had been declined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brewers made some maneuvers on Monday cutting their payroll by $15 million for 2020. Right-handed pitcher Chase Anderson was traded to the Blue Jays in exchange for minor leaguer Chad Spanberger. The team also declined a $7.5 million option on Eric Thames, paging him a $1 million buyout instead. Last season Anderson appeared in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[1131,1132,224,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-11696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chase-anderson","tag-eric-thames","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696","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=11696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11697,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11696\/revisions\/11697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11696"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}