{"id":10064,"date":"2015-02-17T00:09:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T05:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10064"},"modified":"2015-02-17T00:09:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T05:09:35","slug":"barry-zito-returns-to-as-on-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/02\/17\/barry-zito-returns-to-as-on-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Zito returns to A&#8217;s on minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/barryzito.jpg\" alt=\"barryzito\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/barryzito.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/barryzito-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nAfter sitting out the entire 2014 season, Barry Zito will attempt to restart his major league baseball career.<\/p>\n<p>Zito, 36, returns to the team he started with after signing a minor league deal with the Oakland Athletics on Monday. Zito enjoyed the best success of his career with the A&#8217;s winning the Cy Young in 2002 after posting a 23-5 record and a 2.75 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>From there Zito went on to win multiple World Series rings with the San Francisco Giants but could never live up to the seven-year $126 million contract that was given to him in December of 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Zito&#8217;s deal will pay him $1 million if he makes the A&#8217;s roster out of spring training and another $175,000 in incentives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After sitting out the entire 2014 season, Barry Zito will attempt to restart his major league baseball career. Zito, 36, returns to the team he started with after signing a minor league deal with the Oakland Athletics on Monday. Zito enjoyed the best success of his career with the A&#8217;s winning the Cy Young in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[269,501,272,139],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-barry-zito","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-oakland-athletics","11":"tag-san-francisco-giants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064","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=10064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10065,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions\/10065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10064"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}