{"id":5092,"date":"2013-10-28T18:26:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T22:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2013-10-28T18:26:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T22:26:16","slug":"clayton-richard-opts-for-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/10\/28\/clayton-richard-opts-for-free-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Clayton Richard opts for free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5093\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5093\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5093\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/claytonrichard.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/claytonrichard.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/claytonrichard-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Clayton Richard has opted for free agency after he was outrighted off of the San Diego Padres 40-man roster.\u00a0It appeared that the Padres would release Richard sooner or later so this simply gives the left hander a head start on free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Richard, 30, appeared in 12 games for the Padres this season\u00a0posting a 7.01 ERA and a 1.63 WHIP over 52 2\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Richard underwent season-ending to shave down part of his left clavicle. There were no AC joint damage to Richard&#8217;s shoulder which means he should be ready for spring training. He will have a chance to fill out the back end of someones rotation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clayton Richard has opted for free agency after he was outrighted off of the San Diego Padres 40-man roster.\u00a0It appeared that the Padres would release Richard sooner or later so this simply gives the left hander a head start on free agency. Richard, 30, appeared in 12 games for the Padres this season\u00a0posting a 7.01 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[507,355],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-clayton-richard","9":"tag-san-diego-padres"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092","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=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}