{"id":1951,"date":"2009-12-11T17:58:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T23:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2009-12-11T17:58:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T23:58:50","slug":"j-j-putz-is-the-composite-pitcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/1951\/j-j-putz-is-the-composite-pitcher","title":{"rendered":"J.J. Putz is the Composite Pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>J.J. Putz is Jake Peavy.<\/strong><br \/>\nSeriously hurt in 2009. Ready to win in 2010. Great when he&#8217;s great. Terrifying when he&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J.J. Putz is Scott Linebrink.<\/strong><br \/>\nDelivering elite performances along the the anonymous shores of the west coast for most of the decade. Fell off in a big way with his new team. Capable of sub-2.00 ERAs. Also capable of ERAs in excess of 5.00. Has facial hair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J.J. Putz is Octavio Dotel.<\/strong><br \/>\nFantastic in ways that overshadow the overall averageness of his existence. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/teams\/NYM\/2009.shtml\">Terrible<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/teams\/NYM\/1999.shtml\">New<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/teams\/NYY\/2006.shtml\">York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J.J. Putz is Matt Thornton.<\/strong><br \/>\nEx-Mariner. Flamethrowing. Roughly a 1.0 K\/9. Born in Michigan. Tall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J.J. Putz is Bobby Jenks.<\/strong><br \/>\nNotched exactly 40 saves in 2007 for teams that won only slightly more than 40 games. Also filled out the American League bullpen in that year&#8217;s All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J.J. Putz is 2008 Jermaine Dye &#8211; (2006 A.J. Pierzynski * 2).<\/strong><br \/>\nReceived 12 vote points for Most Valuable Player in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J.J. Putz is Nick Swisher.<\/strong><br \/>\nGreat ERA. Can&#8217;t play the outfield to save his life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J.J. Putz is Omar Vizquel.<\/strong><br \/>\nAlso a former Mariner, but missed being teammates by ten years. Ten!<\/p>\n<p><strong>J.J. Putz is Andruw Jones.<\/strong><br \/>\nBoth swiped the same number of bases in 2008. Zero, in case you were wondering.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J.J. Putz is Orlando Hernandez.<\/strong><br \/>\nComing off of injury. Known to be brilliant. Known also to break down. Longtime object of White Sox affection. Possibly key to future success. Undeniably superior to the alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sox&#8217; newest arm is also their oldest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[93,35,143,606,142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}