{"id":645,"date":"2012-11-30T16:44:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T21:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=645"},"modified":"2012-11-30T16:44:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T21:44:10","slug":"pirates-shopping-hanrahan-non-tender-karstens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/11\/30\/pirates-shopping-hanrahan-non-tender-karstens\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates shopping Hanrahan, non-tender Karstens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Need a closer? Joel Hanrahan is available. The Pittsburgh Pirates have been shopping Hanrahan who saved 36 games last season.<\/p>\n

Hanrahan pitched well for the Pirates finishing with a 2.72 ERA and a 67\/36 K\/BB ratio last season. He made $4.1 million in 2012 and will get a raise over the winter in his last year of arbitration-eligibility.<\/p>\n

One team who has spoken to the Pirates about Hanrahan is the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers are actively pursuing a few different starting pitchers and would need to trade one member of their current roster. The name discussed with the Pirates is Chris Capuano. Capuano was 12-12 for the Dodgers last season making 33 starts and had a 3.72 ERA. The Pirates are also speaking to additional teams.<\/p>\n

Hanrahan was a All-Star last season.<\/p>\n

The Pirates remain active in trying to re-sign Jason Grilli. Reports have stated that Grilli has drawn some interest as a closer for next season. In ten big league seasons Grilli has saved five games.<\/p>\n

Karstens non-tendered<\/h1>\n

One player who will not be back with the Pirates next season is Jeff Karstens. Karstens will have to seek a contract on the open market. Last season Karstens had a 3.97 ERA for the Pirates but was due a raise in arbitration after making $3.1 million last season.<\/p>\n

Karstens made 15 starts and four apperances out of hte bulklpen for the Pirates last season. He dealt with a variety of of injuries ranging from shoulder, hip and legs, last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Need a closer? Joel Hanrahan is available. The Pittsburgh Pirates have been shopping Hanrahan who saved 36 games last season. Hanrahan pitched well for the Pirates finishing with a 2.72 ERA and a 67\/36 K\/BB ratio last season. He made $4.1 million in 2012 and will get a raise over the winter in his last […]<\/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":[115],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-joel-hanrahan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","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=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}