{"id":9890,"date":"2015-01-10T16:03:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T21:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9890"},"modified":"2015-01-10T16:03:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T21:03:33","slug":"padres-sign-jose-valverde-scott-elbert-to-minor-league-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/01\/10\/padres-sign-jose-valverde-scott-elbert-to-minor-league-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres sign Jose Valverde, Scott Elbert to minor league deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7969\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7969\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/josevalverde.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/josevalverde.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/josevalverde-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The San Diego Padres have added a pair of relief pitchers via minor league contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Valverde and Scott Elbert will both join the Padres this spring as they seek to earn a spot in the teams bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>Valverde, 36, began last season as the closer of the New York Mets but things quickly fell apart as he had a 5.66 ERA, 1.65 WHIP and 23\/10 K\/BB ratio in 20 2\/3 innings before earning his release. A former closer his days at the back-end of anyone&#8217;s bullpen are over.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Elbert appeared in seven games for the Dodgers in 2014 posting a 2.08 ERA, 1.15 WHIP and a 2\/1 K\/BB ratio in 4 1\/3 innings. He will be looking to crack the Padres opening day roster as a lefty out of the pen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Athletics designate Andy Parrino for assignment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After acquiring both Ben Zobrist and Yunel Escobar from the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday the Oakland Athletics have designated infielder Andy Parrino for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>There is a good chance that Parrino passes though waivers unclaimed and returns to the A&#8217;s as minor league depth at Triple-A Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>In 21 games Parrino hit .152\/.216\/.283 with a home run and three RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Padres have added a pair of relief pitchers via minor league contracts. Jose Valverde and Scott Elbert will both join the Padres this spring as they seek to earn a spot in the teams bullpen. Valverde, 36, began last season as the closer of the New York Mets but things quickly fell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[294,501,272,355],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-9890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-jose-valverde","tag-mlb","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-san-diego-padres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890","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=9890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9891,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890\/revisions\/9891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9890"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}