{"id":10641,"date":"2016-01-22T11:58:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10641"},"modified":"2016-01-22T11:58:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T16:58:45","slug":"rays-sign-jaff-decker-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2016\/01\/22\/rays-sign-jaff-decker-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays sign Jaff Decker to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/jaffdecker-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"jaffdecker\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10642\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/jaffdecker-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/jaffdecker-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/jaffdecker-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/jaffdecker.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><br \/>\nOutfielder Jaff Decker has signed a minor league deal with the Tampa Bay Rays. The 25-year-old Decker saw 28 at-bats at the big league level last season with the Pittsburgh Pirates hitting .214.\/.372\/.321 with eight runs scored.<\/p>\n<p>Much of last season Decker was stashed at Triple-A by the Pirateswhere he hit .266\/.370\/.362 with three homers and 18 steals.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays could use Decker and his career .393 minor league on base percentage for a bench spot this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outfielder Jaff Decker has signed a minor league deal with the Tampa Bay Rays. The 25-year-old Decker saw 28 at-bats at the big league level last season with the Pittsburgh Pirates hitting .214.\/.372\/.321 with eight runs scored. Much of last season Decker was stashed at Triple-A by the Pirateswhere he hit .266\/.370\/.362 with three homers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10641","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\/10641","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=10641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10644,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10641\/revisions\/10644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10641"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}