{"id":6998,"date":"2014-03-31T15:51:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T19:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6998"},"modified":"2014-03-31T15:51:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T19:51:59","slug":"athletics-sign-joe-blanton-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/31\/athletics-sign-joe-blanton-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics sign Joe Blanton to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6553\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/joeblanton.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"404\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6553\" 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><br \/>\nThe Oakland Athletics have signed pitcher Joe Blanton to a minor league deal.<\/p>\n<p>Blanton has been assigned to Triple-A Sacramento .<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Blanton was let go by the Los Angeles Angels this spring after allowing 22 hits and 16 earned runs in 20 1\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>It is doubtful that Blanton will become much of an option for the Athletics this season after he was 2-14 last season with a 6.04 ERA and a 1.61 WHIP across 132 2\/3 innings of work for the Angels.<\/p>\n<p>He provides the Athletics some form of minor league depth but that is about it. No word if he has any opt out dates in his new deal.<\/p>\n<p>Blanton was originally the 24th pick of the 2002 draft by the Athletics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Athletics have signed pitcher Joe Blanton to a minor league deal. Blanton has been assigned to Triple-A Sacramento . The 33-year-old Blanton was let go by the Los Angeles Angels this spring after allowing 22 hits and 16 earned runs in 20 1\/3 innings of work. It is doubtful that Blanton will become [&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":[127,272],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-joe-blanton","9":"tag-oakland-athletics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998","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=6998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6999,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions\/6999"}],"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=6998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6998"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}