{"id":9253,"date":"2014-10-30T21:43:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T01:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9253"},"modified":"2014-10-30T21:43:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T01:43:45","slug":"padres-decline-option-on-josh-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/10\/30\/padres-decline-option-on-josh-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres decline option on Josh Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/joshjohnson.jpg\" alt=\"joshjohnson\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/joshjohnson.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/joshjohnson-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nJosh Johnson did not play during the 2014 season and after a second Tommy John surgery is questionable to start the 2015 season.<\/p>\n<p>With the knowledge the Padres have declined a $4 million option on the 30-year-old. Both sides are said to be interested in working out a smaller deal which would contain incentives. <\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-7 Johnson has proven to be a valuable rotation member when healthy but has spent more time on the disabled list then on the active roster of late.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has made just 56 starts since the start of the 2011 season. In 2013 as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays he was 2-8 with a 6.20 ERA and a 1.66 WHIP in 16 starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Johnson did not play during the 2014 season and after a second Tommy John surgery is questionable to start the 2015 season. With the knowledge the Padres have declined a $4 million option on the 30-year-old. Both sides are said to be interested in working out a smaller deal which would contain incentives. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[297,501,355],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-josh-johnson","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-san-diego-padres"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253","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=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9254,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions\/9254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}