Oakland, CA (SportsNetwork.com) – The Oakland Athletics released former closer Jim Johnson on Friday.<\/p>\n
Johnson was designated for assignment on July 24.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old right-hander had struggled since being acquired in an offseason trade with the Baltimore Orioles and was removed from the closer’s role earlier this season.<\/p>\n
In 38 games, he was 4-2 with two saves, one blown save and a 7.14 ERA. Opponents were hitting .353 against him and his ERA and opponents’ on-base percentage (.434) were the highest among major league relievers at the time of his designation.<\/p>\n
Johnson allowed 12 runs on 13 hits in 4 1\/3 innings over his last five games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oakland, CA (SportsNetwork.com) – The Oakland Athletics released former closer Jim Johnson on Friday. Johnson was designated for assignment on July 24. The 31-year-old right-hander had struggled since being acquired in an offseason trade with the Baltimore Orioles and was removed from the closer’s role earlier this season. In 38 games, he was 4-2 with […]<\/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":[41,40,39],"class_list":["post-21587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-athletics","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587","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=21587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21611,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587\/revisions\/21611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}