{"id":2024,"date":"2013-04-09T11:29:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T15:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2013-04-09T11:29:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T15:29:52","slug":"roy-oswalt-would-love-to-pitch-for-phillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/04\/09\/roy-oswalt-would-love-to-pitch-for-phillies\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Oswalt would love to pitch for Phillies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2025\" alt=\"royoswalt\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/royoswalt.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/royoswalt.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/royoswalt-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Roy Oswalt&#8217;s name was unheard of for most of the offseason but that does not mean that the 35-year-old would not pitch again.<\/p>\n<p>Oswalt wrote on his Twitter account on Monday that he would &#8220;love to come back to Philly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The right hander spent parts of two seasons as a member of the Phillies before signing a contract mid-season with the Texas Rangers in 2012. Oswalt had the worst season of his career lastyear appearing in 17 games and posting a 5.80 ERA and a 1.53 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>There could be an opening in Philadelphia for a player such as Oswalt if Roy Halladay continues to struggle. The two-time Cy Young winner struggled in his second start of the year and is 0-2 with a 14.73 ERA to start the season.<\/p>\n<p>Any deal with Oswalt would likely be for the the minimum salary with incentives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Oswalt&#8217;s name was unheard of for most of the offseason but that does not mean that the 35-year-old would not pitch again. Oswalt wrote on his Twitter account on Monday that he would &#8220;love to come back to Philly.&#8221; The right hander spent parts of two seasons as a member of the Phillies before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[281],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-roy-oswalt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","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=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}