{"id":10055,"date":"2015-02-12T15:42:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10055"},"modified":"2015-02-12T15:42:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:42:43","slug":"astros-sign-roberto-hernandez-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/02\/12\/astros-sign-roberto-hernandez-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros sign Roberto Hernandez to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/02\/robertohernandez.jpg\" alt=\"robertohernandez\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10056\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/02\/robertohernandez.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/02\/robertohernandez-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Astros have signed free agent pitcher Roberto Hernandez to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez, 34, could not find a major league deal this winter after posting a 4.10 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, and 105\/73 K\/BB ratio in 164 2\/3 innings last season between the Phillies and Dodgers. <\/p>\n<p>The Astros could use Hernandez &#8211; who formerly was known as Fausto Carmona &#8211; as a back of the rotation starter or in the bullpen. Regardless of his name, Hernandez has not been a realiable major leaguer since the 2010 season when he was with the Indians. The Astros are buying low here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Astros have signed free agent pitcher Roberto Hernandez to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training. Hernandez, 34, could not find a major league deal this winter after posting a 4.10 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, and 105\/73 K\/BB ratio in 164 2\/3 innings last season between the Phillies and Dodgers. The Astros [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,93,501,255],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-houston-astros","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-roberto-hernandez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055","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=10055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10057,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055\/revisions\/10057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10055"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}