{"id":1029,"date":"2013-01-01T17:54:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T22:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2013-01-01T17:58:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T22:58:30","slug":"indians-sign-brett-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/01\/01\/indians-sign-brett-myers\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians sign Brett Myers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1030\" alt=\"brettmyers\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/01\/brettmyers.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/01\/brettmyers.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/01\/brettmyers-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brett Myers and the Cleveland Indians have reached an agreement on a one year deal. The deal also includes a club option <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeymanCBS\/status\/286232905246711808\">reports<\/a> Jon Heyman.<\/p>\n<p>Myers, 32, had been seeking a deal with a team that would give him a chance to return to the rotation. Last season he pitched for the Astros and White Sox out of the bullpen posting a 3.31 ERA and a 1.22 WHIP in 65 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Myers was used solely as a starting pitcher was the 2011 season.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the deal have not been announced yet.<\/p>\n<p>Myers should slide in nicely into the Indians rotation. His ability to throw 200 innings should help save some arms in the Indians bullpen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Myers and the Cleveland Indians have reached an agreement on a one year deal. The deal also includes a club option reports Jon Heyman. Myers, 32, had been seeking a deal with a team that would give him a chance to return to the rotation. Last season he pitched for the Astros and White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","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=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}