{"id":632,"date":"2012-11-30T12:49:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T17:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=632"},"modified":"2012-11-30T12:49:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T17:49:45","slug":"pirates-would-like-jason-grilli-to-return-interest-as-closer-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/11\/30\/pirates-would-like-jason-grilli-to-return-interest-as-closer-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates would like Jason Grilli to return, interest as closer elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www4.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Jason+Grilli+Pittsburgh+Pirates+v+Houston+vGQkbYzlJcol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The Pittsburgh Pirates are pushing to break .500 in 2013. With a reported signing of Russell Martin as the teams backstop the Pirates are working to re-sign Jason Grilli. Grilli was a key cog in the Pirates bullpen last season setting up for closer Joel Hanrahan.<\/p>\n<p>Should the Pirates be successful in re-signing Grilli, he would figure to be first inline between Hanrahan for saves. Grilli posted a 2.91 ERA and a 1.14 WHIP last season while striking out an eye popping 90 batters in 58 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Which teams are considering Grilli for their closers role is unknown right now. If Grilli could land a job as a teams closer it figures to be a decent pay bump over what he would make as a top level setup man.<\/p>\n<p>The 36 year old Grilli has 5 saves in 10 big league seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Pittsburgh Pirates are pushing to break .500 in 2013. With a reported signing of Russell Martin as the teams backstop the Pirates are working to re-sign Jason Grilli. Grilli was a key cog in the Pirates bullpen last season setting up for closer Joel Hanrahan. Should the Pirates be successful in re-signing Grilli, he [&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":[111,112],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-jason-grilli","8":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","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=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}