{"id":8648,"date":"2014-07-30T18:36:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T22:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8648"},"modified":"2014-07-30T18:36:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T22:36:02","slug":"orioles-interested-in-trading-for-reliever-neal-cotts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/30\/orioles-interested-in-trading-for-reliever-neal-cotts\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles interested in trading for reliever Neal Cotts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/nealcotts.jpg\" alt=\"nealcotts\" width=\"594\" height=\"435\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/nealcotts.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/nealcotts-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers have had discussions about a trade that would send reliever Neal Cotts to the Orioles according to T.R. Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>With Zach Britton moving into the closers role, the Orioles have a need for a left handed reliever.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Orioles and Rangers talking about Neal Cotts&#8230;. Orioles looking for reliever who can get both sides out.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TR Sullivan (@Sullivan_Ranger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sullivan_Ranger\/statuses\/494605493071904770\">July 30, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While a trade is possible, Sullivan notes that the Rangers have left open the option of signing Cotts to an extension.<\/p>\n<p>Cotts owns a 3.52 ERA and 50\/18 K\/BB ratio over 46 innings this season and could be a nice addition to anyone looking to improve their bullpen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers have had discussions about a trade that would send reliever Neal Cotts to the Orioles according to T.R. Sullivan. With Zach Britton moving into the closers role, the Orioles have a need for a left handed reliever. Orioles and Rangers talking about Neal Cotts&#8230;. Orioles looking for reliever who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,501,338,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-mlb","tag-neal-cotts","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648","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=8648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8650,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8648\/revisions\/8650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8648"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}