{"id":4573,"date":"2013-08-29T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T19:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2013-08-29T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T19:30:16","slug":"indians-release-brett-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/29\/indians-release-brett-myers\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians release Brett Myers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2867\" alt=\"brettmyers\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/brettmyers.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/brettmyers.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/brettmyers-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brett Myers has not pitched for the Cleveland Indians sine April 19. He will not pitch for them again this season as the team cut ties with the 33-year-old right hander on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Myers struck out two batters in a rehab assignment on Monday but the Indians have opted to release him rather then place him on their roster. Myers was activated from the 60-day disabled list and then released.<\/p>\n<p>Signed to a $7 million deal in the off-season, Myers pitched in only four games for the Indians this season going 0-3 with a 8.02 ERA and a 1.59 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>Myers split the 2012 season as a reliever between the Houston Astros and Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Myers has not pitched for the Cleveland Indians sine April 19. He will not pitch for them again this season as the team cut ties with the 33-year-old right hander on Thursday. Myers struck out two batters in a rehab assignment on Monday but the Indians have opted to release him rather then place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[350,156],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-brett-myers","8":"tag-cleveland-indians"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","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=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}