{"id":195,"date":"2009-11-17T16:49:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T20:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2009-11-17T16:49:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T20:49:13","slug":"buddy-carlyle-heads-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2009\/11\/17\/buddy-carlyle-heads-to-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddy Carlyle heads to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.daylife.com\/imageserve\/0avT9pf7MAazJ\/610x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"264\" \/>I had hoped to be able to write the following headline this winter and now it has happened. Buddy Carlyle has signed with the Nippon Ham Fighters of Japan&#8217;s Pacific League.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old right hander has a 5.61 ERA in parts of six seasons spent with the San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves. Carlyle&#8217;s best statistical season came in 2008 when he pitched in 45 games out of the Braves bullpen going 2-0 with a 3.59 ERA in 62.2 innings while having a career best 1.25 WHIP. The previous season he emerged as an emergency starter with the Braves and started 20 games while picking up 8 of his 11 career wins while helping out a Braves rotation ravished with injuries.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 Carlyle was expected to fill the role of swing man\/first guy out of the pen but missed nearly three months of the season while dealing with a back strain and a diagnosis of Type-1 diabetes. In 16 appearances with the Braves he had a 8.86 ERA and a 2.203 WHIP and quickly proved he wasn&#8217;t much of an option going into the off-season.<\/p>\n<p>Carlyle made $425,000 last season and had been rumored to be an option at a minor league contract for organization depth for the Braves. There figures to be no shortage of players looking for work this off season so it doesn&#8217;t figure to be too hard to replace a guy whose career numbers are 11-11 with a 5.61 ERA and a 1.45 WHIP. In his three seasons on the Braves big league roster he was 10-8 with a 5.09 ERA and a 1.44 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had hoped to be able to write the following headline this winter and now it has happened. Buddy Carlyle has signed with the Nippon Ham Fighters of Japan&#8217;s Pacific League. The 32-year-old right hander has a 5.61 ERA in parts of six seasons spent with the San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}