{"id":716801,"date":"2010-04-14T19:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T23:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:fantasy,article,yhoo-ept_sports_fantasy_experts-234312:1"},"modified":"2010-04-14T19:01:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T23:01:31","slug":"toronto-makes-it-official-kevin-gregg-is-the-primary-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/716801","title":{"rendered":"Toronto makes it official: Kevin Gregg is the ‘primary closer’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_fantasy_experts__26\/ept_sports_fantasy_experts-478854444-1271285820.jpg?ym9w9.CDoATILi_O\" <\/p>\n

When Kevin Gregg<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> earned the save on Tuesday night, it was fairly clear that he — not Jason Frasor<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> — had emerged as Plan A in the ninth inning for Toronto. Cito Gaston made it official<\/a> on Wednesday. MLB.com’s Jordan Bastian tweets the following: <\/p>\n

\n

Cito: Kevin Gregg is the new primary closer for the Blue Jays. Jason Frasor slides back into setup role.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Gregg is pitching well at the moment (4.1 IP, 1 H, 0 BB, 6 K), which isn’t unusual for him in April. Historically, this has been Gregg’s best month: 84.2 IP, 3.08 ERA, 85 K. Toronto’s schedule is relatively friendly<\/a> over the next six weeks, at least by A.L. East standards, so this thing could work for a little while. Enjoy it while you can. Ideally, you’re only adding Gregg as a trade chip.  <\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Photo via AP Images <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Kevin Gregg(notes) earned the save on Tuesday night, it was fairly clear that he — not Jason Frasor(notes) — had emerged as Plan A in the ninth inning for Toronto. Cito Gaston made it official on Wednesday. MLB.com’s Jordan Bastian tweets the following: Cito: Kevin Gregg is the new primary closer for the Blue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3567,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30tj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}