{"id":6879,"date":"2014-03-26T12:44:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6879"},"modified":"2014-03-26T12:44:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:44:49","slug":"angels-release-pitcher-joe-blanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/26\/angels-release-pitcher-joe-blanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels release pitcher Joe Blanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6553\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6553\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/joeblanton.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/joeblanton.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/joeblanton-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Los Angeles Angels have released pitcher Joe Blanton.<\/p>\n<p>Blanton, 33, was given a two-year deal worth $15 million which immediately the Angels regretted.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Blanton appeared in 28 games last season making 20 starts and posted an ugly 6.04 ERA and a 1.61 WHIP in 132 2\/3 innings. He has not posted a sub-4 ERA since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels are on the hook for his $7.5 million salary this season as well as a $1 million buyout for 2015. Previously the Angels had been fielding trades for the right hander but no one was willing to offer anything.<\/p>\n<p>There figures to be some interest in Blanton around the league now that he is a free agent but expectations should be tempered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Angels have released pitcher Joe Blanton. Blanton, 33, was given a two-year deal worth $15 million which immediately the Angels regretted. Last season Blanton appeared in 28 games last season making 20 starts and posted an ugly 6.04 ERA and a 1.61 WHIP in 132 2\/3 innings. He has not posted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[127,114,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-joe-blanton","9":"tag-los-angeles-angels","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879","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=6879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6880,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879\/revisions\/6880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6879"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}