{"id":10058,"date":"2015-02-13T13:26:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T18:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10058"},"modified":"2015-02-13T13:26:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T18:26:39","slug":"white-sox-sign-matt-albers-joe-thatcher-lands-with-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/02\/13\/white-sox-sign-matt-albers-joe-thatcher-lands-with-astros\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox sign Matt Albers, Joe Thatcher lands with Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8156\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8156\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/mattalbers.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/mattalbers.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/mattalbers-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The White Sox have been very active this offseason. On Friday they added veteran reliever Matt Albers on a minor league deal.<\/p>\n<p>Abers can earn $1.5 million this season if he makes the White Sox out of spring training. He made just eight big league appearances ast year while dealing with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p>The right hander is said to be in good heath and was seen reaching 91 mph on the radar gun during a throwing session earlier this month. If healthy he should land in the bullpen and provide the White Sox with a worthwhile reliever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Astros sign Joe Thatcher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Astros have signed left handed reliever Joe Thatcher to a minor league deal.<\/p>\n<p>Thatcher will be invited to spring training and if he cracks the roster will earn $1 million during the 2015 season with another $1.3 million available via incentives.<\/p>\n<p>In 53 games last season Thatcher pitched 30 1\/3 innings\u00a0finishing with a 3.86 ERA and a 1.32 WHIP. He offers a good option against left handed hitters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White Sox have been very active this offseason. On Friday they added veteran reliever Matt Albers on a minor league deal. Abers can earn $1.5 million this season if he makes the White Sox out of spring training. He made just eight big league appearances ast year while dealing with a shoulder injury. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,941,940,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-joe-thatcher","10":"tag-matt-alberts","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10058","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=10058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10059,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10058\/revisions\/10059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10058"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}