{"id":412,"date":"2013-03-26T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/jays-send-struggling-romero-to-single-a\/"},"modified":"2013-03-26T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T20:07:00","slug":"jays-send-struggling-romero-to-single-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/jays-send-struggling-romero-to-single-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Jays send struggling Romero to Single A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dunedin, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; Ricky Romero has been on the mound for the Toronto Blue Jays&#8217; last two season openers. This year, he won&#8217;t even be on the team&#8217;s initial roster.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays optioned the slumping left-hander to Class A Dunedin following Tuesday&#8217;s spring training game in an effort to allow Romero to work out his lingering control issues.<\/p>\n<p>Romero won a combined 42 games over his first three major league seasons, but slipped to a 9-14 record and a career-worst 5.77 earned run average while walking an American League-high 105 batters last year. The former first-round pick&#8217;s command problems lingered into this spring, as he issued 10 free passes and posted a troubling 6.23 ERA in just 13 innings pitched.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old labored through another outing on Tuesday, walking three over 4 1\/3 innings against Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>The move locks J.A. Happ into Toronto&#8217;s fifth starter&#8217;s role heading into the upcoming regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dunedin, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; Ricky Romero has been on the mound for the Toronto Blue Jays&#8217; last two season openers. This year, he won&#8217;t even be on the team&#8217;s initial roster. The Blue Jays optioned the slumping left-hander to Class A Dunedin following Tuesday&#8217;s spring training game in an effort to allow Romero to [&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":[116,115,114],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-blue-jays","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","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=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}