{"id":9767,"date":"2014-12-19T21:43:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T02:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9767"},"modified":"2014-12-19T21:43:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T02:43:23","slug":"dodgers-release-brian-wilson-red-sox-re-sign-craig-breslow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/19\/dodgers-release-brian-wilson-red-sox-re-sign-craig-breslow\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers release Brian Wilson, Red Sox re-sign Craig Breslow"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5173\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5173\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/brianwilson.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/brianwilson.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/brianwilson-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Dodgers have soured on reliever Brian Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, 32, was released by the Dodgers on Friday after posting a 4.66 ERA, 1.61 WHIP and 54\/29 K\/BB ratio over 48 1\/3 innings in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The bearded right hander should have little trouble attracting the interest of others interested in bullpen help though none of them figure to offer him closing gigs.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson exercised his $9.5 million player option in November meaning the Dodgers are going to eat a lot of money on this one. They already are paying the Marlins $10 million for taking on Dan Haren and the Paders $32 million in the Matt Kemp trade.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox were able to keep Craig Breslow.<\/p>\n<p>Breslow is coming off a down 2014 season after posting a 5.96 ERA and a 1.86 WHIP. He has been one of baseball&#8217;s better left handed options which is one reason the Cubs, and former general manager Theo Epstein, tried so hard to land him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dodgers have soured on reliever Brian Wilson. Wilson, 32, was released by the Dodgers on Friday after posting a 4.66 ERA, 1.61 WHIP and 54\/29 K\/BB ratio over 48 1\/3 innings in 2014. The bearded right hander should have little trouble attracting the interest of others interested in bullpen help though none of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,168,503,501,901],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-boston-red-sox","9":"tag-brian-wilson","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-theo-epstein"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767","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=9767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9768,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions\/9768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9767"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}