{"id":16705,"date":"2014-03-26T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/angels-release-blanton\/"},"modified":"2014-03-26T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T12:59:00","slug":"angels-release-blanton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/angels-release-blanton\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels release Blanton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tempe, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim gave pitcher Joe Blanton his unconditional release on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The corpulent 33-year-old right-hander endured his worst major-league season with the Halos in 2013, going 2-14 with a 6.04 earned run average over 132 2\/3 innings in 28 games (20 starts).<\/p>\n<p>Over 10 seasons, the Kentucky product has racked up an 85-89 mark and 4.51 ERA in 265 appearances, all but 17 of those as a starter, for the Athletics, Phillies, Dodgers and Angels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tempe, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim gave pitcher Joe Blanton his unconditional release on Wednesday. The corpulent 33-year-old right-hander endured his worst major-league season with the Halos in 2013, going 2-14 with a 6.04 earned run average over 132 2\/3 innings in 28 games (20 starts). Over 10 seasons, the Kentucky [&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":[88,21,87],"class_list":["post-16705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-angels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16705","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=16705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}