{"id":6010,"date":"2014-01-21T09:27:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T14:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6010"},"modified":"2014-01-21T09:27:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T14:27:38","slug":"report-braves-and-eric-oflaherty-not-in-discussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/21\/report-braves-and-eric-oflaherty-not-in-discussions\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Braves and Eric O&#8217;Flaherty not in discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5531\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5531\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ericoflaherty.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ericoflaherty.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ericoflaherty-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A little over a month ago it appeared that left handed relief pitcher Eric O&#8217;Flaherty was on his way to re-signing with the Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n<p>Now the guy who passed along that information, David O&#8217;Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, is saying that the team and O&#8217;Flaherty have not had any recent discussions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Braves&amp;src=hash\">#Braves<\/a> haven&#39;t had any recent discussions with free agent lefty O&#39;Flaherty.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David O&#39;Brien (@ajcbraves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajcbraves\/statuses\/425485156137590784\">January 21, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Flaherty is recovering from Tommy John surgery and is not expected to be ready util after the season starts.<\/p>\n<p>No other teams have publicly been linked to O&#8217;Flaherty .<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Flaherty will turn 29 before Spring Training gets underway. He appeared in 19 games last season finishing with a 2.50 ERA and a 0.94 WHIP. He has been a mainstay in the Braves bullpen since 2009.\u00a0During his time in Atlanta, O&#8217;Flaherty has appeared in 295 games with a 1.99 ERA and a 1.16 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a month ago it appeared that left handed relief pitcher Eric O&#8217;Flaherty was on his way to re-signing with the Atlanta Braves. Now the guy who passed along that information, David O&#8217;Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, is saying that the team and O&#8217;Flaherty have not had any recent discussions. #Braves haven&#39;t had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,332,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-eric-oflaherty","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010","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=6010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6010"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}