{"id":2436,"date":"2011-01-02T12:51:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T18:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2011-01-03T12:47:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T18:47:25","slug":"the-golden-sombreros-top-50-prospects-50-chris-dwyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2436","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Sombrero&#8217;s Top 50 Prospects: #50 &#8211; Chris Dwyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/chris_dwyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2437\" title=\"chris_dwyer\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/chris_dwyer-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/minors\/player.cgi?id=dwyer-001chr\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Dwyer<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Kansas City Royals<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">LHP<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">DOB: 4\/10\/1988<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ETA: 2012<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As a former third-rounder with a fastball that sits in the 91-93 range and can run as high as 95, Chris Dwyer easily projects as a solid middle of the rotation arm.\u00a0 His curveball is at least a plus pitch and occasionally double plus.\u00a0 His changeup is holding him back, but his handedness will allow him to have success against righties even if it never plays at a real 50.\u00a0 With an athletic build (6\u20193\u201d, 210 lb.) and a true swing-and-miss bender, Dwyer will have a chance at a rotation spot within the next couple of seasons.\u00a0 Between the Carolina League and Double-A, Dwyer tossed 102 innings in 19 starts striking out 113 guys with 43 walks and a 3.00 ERA.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Dwyer &#8211; Kansas City Royals LHP DOB: 4\/10\/1988 ETA: 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,1300,6,9,11,13,10,14,1616],"tags":[1594,302,3463],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}