{"id":1055,"date":"2013-01-05T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T22:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2013-01-05T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T22:06:51","slug":"rangers-sign-lance-berkman-to-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/01\/05\/rangers-sign-lance-berkman-to-one-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers sign Lance Berkman to one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1046\" alt=\"lanceberkman\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/01\/lanceberkman.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/01\/lanceberkman.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/01\/lanceberkman-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lance Berkman will play in Texas this season. The veteran will play for the Texas Rangers after agreeing to a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>With the Rangers, Berkman is expected to serve as the teams primary designated hitter. Berkman will make reportedly somewhere in the $10-11 million range. There is a vesting option for 2014 but it will require Berkman to have at-least 550 at-bats.<\/p>\n<p>Berkman missed the majority of last season while dealing with a knee injury. Houston and Baltimore also had interest in signing Berkman. Mitch Moreland figures to play the bulk of the season as the Rangers first-baseman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Berkman will play in Texas this season. The veteran will play for the Texas Rangers after agreeing to a one-year deal. With the Rangers, Berkman is expected to serve as the teams primary designated hitter. Berkman will make reportedly somewhere in the $10-11 million range. There is a vesting option for 2014 but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[60,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-lance-berkman","9":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","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=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}