{"id":10049,"date":"2015-02-10T21:55:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T02:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10049"},"modified":"2015-02-10T21:55:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T02:55:21","slug":"braves-sign-matt-capps-and-jose-veras-to-minor-league-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/02\/10\/braves-sign-matt-capps-and-jose-veras-to-minor-league-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves sign Matt Capps and Jose Veras to minor league deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/02\/mattcapps.jpg\" alt=\"mattcapps\" width=\"594\" height=\"415\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10050\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/02\/mattcapps.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/02\/mattcapps-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Atlanta Braves have added a pair of veteran arms on minor league contracts. Both Matt Capps and Jose Veras will receive an invitation to spring training with the Braves after reaching deals on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Capps, a former closer with the Pirates, has been out of the big leagues since 2012 as he has dealt with shoulder issues. He has to be seen as a longshot to contribute to the Braves but since it is only a minor league deal there is nothing to lose here.<\/p>\n<p>Verras will also report to spring training with the Braves as he joins Capps vying for a bullpen spot.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old holds a 3.70 ERA and 9.8 K\/9 rate over the last five seasons. He spent the 2014 season split between the Astros and Cubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves have added a pair of veteran arms on minor league contracts. Both Matt Capps and Jose Veras will receive an invitation to spring training with the Braves after reaching deals on Tuesday. Capps, a former closer with the Pirates, has been out of the big leagues since 2012 as he has dealt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,503,191,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-10049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-front","tag-matt-capps","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10051,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049\/revisions\/10051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10049"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}