{"id":981,"date":"2009-07-24T15:14:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T20:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2009-07-24T15:14:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T20:14:13","slug":"phillies-back-up-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Phillies back-up plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Danny Knobler of CBSSports.com, the Phillies had a scout in Detroit Thursday watching Mariners left-hander Jarrod Washburn.<br \/>\nWashburn is 4-1 with a 1.47 ERA in five starts during the month of July and blanked the Tigers for seven innings Thursday .&#8221;He was as good as he&#8217;s been in four or five years,&#8221; said a scout from a different club. &#8220;He&#8217;s never used the sinker the way he&#8217;s using it now.&#8221; The Phillies probably see the left-hander as a backup plan in case their Roy Halladay talks go nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>That bit coming from rotoworld. \u00a0We will see what the Phillies plan to do regardless. \u00a0Hopefully they make a move without having to give up half of the farm. \u00a0If they don&#8217;t do anything I have a sneaking guess that Brett Myers is doing better than we all think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Danny Knobler of CBSSports.com, the Phillies had a scout in Detroit Thursday watching Mariners left-hander Jarrod Washburn. Washburn is 4-1 with a 1.47 ERA in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia_phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}