{"id":13890,"date":"2014-02-07T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/brewers-bring-back-reliever-rodriguez-on-1-year-deal\/"},"modified":"2014-02-07T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:27:00","slug":"brewers-bring-back-reliever-rodriguez-on-1-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/brewers-bring-back-reliever-rodriguez-on-1-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers bring back reliever Rodriguez on 1-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee, WI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Milwaukee Brewers brought back a familiar face on Friday, agreeing to terms with reliever Francisco Rodriguez on a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez spent two-plus seasons in the Brewers&#8217; bullpen before being dealt to Baltimore prior to last year&#8217;s trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Over 48 combined games with the Brewers and Orioles, Rodriguez went 3-2 with a 2.70 earned run average and 10 saves.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old right-hander was once a premier closer, leading the AL in saves three times in a four-year span from 2005-2008, culminating in a 62-save season in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>In all, Rodriguez has played 12 seasons in the majors, going 41-36 with a 2.70 ERA and 304 saves over 730 relief appearances with the Angels, Mets, Brewers and Orioles.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Friday, Milwaukee designated pitcher Donovan Hand for assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee, WI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Milwaukee Brewers brought back a familiar face on Friday, agreeing to terms with reliever Francisco Rodriguez on a one-year contract. Rodriguez spent two-plus seasons in the Brewers&#8217; bullpen before being dealt to Baltimore prior to last year&#8217;s trade deadline. Over 48 combined games with the Brewers and Orioles, Rodriguez went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[175,174,173],"class_list":["post-13890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-brewers","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}