{"id":7235,"date":"2013-11-01T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rangers-p-nathan-opts-for-free-agency\/"},"modified":"2013-11-01T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T17:46:00","slug":"rangers-p-nathan-opts-for-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rangers-p-nathan-opts-for-free-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers P Nathan opts for free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Texas Rangers pitcher Joe Nathan has decided to void the final year on his contract and will enter free agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers exercised the club portion of Nathan&#8217;s 2014 contract option, but the 38-year old reliever voided the player portion.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan went 6-2 this past season with a 1.39 ERA and 43 saves. He signed with Texas as a free agent in 2011 after seven seasons in Minnesota and appeared in 133 games for the Rangers, all out of the bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan ranks 10th all-time with 341 saves, the most among active pitchers following Mariano Rivera&#8217;s retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Texas Rangers pitcher Joe Nathan has decided to void the final year on his contract and will enter free agency. The Rangers exercised the club portion of Nathan&#8217;s 2014 contract option, but the 38-year old reliever voided the player portion. Nathan went 6-2 this past season with a 1.39 ERA and [&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":[16,15,14],"class_list":["post-7235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235","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=7235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}