{"id":3129,"date":"2013-06-14T18:59:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T22:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2013-06-14T18:59:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T22:59:15","slug":"tigers-sticking-with-jose-valverde-as-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/06\/14\/tigers-sticking-with-jose-valverde-as-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers sticking with Jose Valverde as closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2176\" style=\"width: 674px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2176\" alt=\"josevalverde\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/josevalverde1.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/josevalverde1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/josevalverde1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Jose<\/p>\n<p>Jim Leyland did not give Jose Valverde a strong vote of confidence but said that the 35-year-old will continue to act as the Tigers closer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to use Jose Valverde until we decide Jose Valverde can or can&#8217;t do it or we&#8217;ve got somebody else better,&#8221; said Leyland.<\/p>\n<p>Signed to a minor league deal at the start of the season the Tigers have had mixed results from Valverde. Currently the right hander has a 4.15 ERA and three blown saves in just 18 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers and Valverde have been in this situation before as he struggled badly as the 2012 season came to an end. Valverde was not re-signed over the winter as general manager Dave Dombrowski trusted rookie Bruce Rondon with the job of closing.<\/p>\n<p>Before the first month of the season was completed the Tigers had restored Valverde to the closers role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Jose Jim Leyland did not give Jose Valverde a strong vote of confidence but said that the 35-year-old will continue to act as the Tigers closer. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to use Jose Valverde until we decide Jose Valverde can or can&#8217;t do it or we&#8217;ve got somebody else better,&#8221; said Leyland. Signed to a minor league [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[66,294],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-3129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-detroit-tigers","9":"tag-jose-valverde"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129","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=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}