{"id":527871,"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.media\/index\/527871","title":{"rendered":"Toronto makes it official: Kevin Gregg is the ‘primary closer’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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

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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

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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":5466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}