{"id":10660,"date":"2016-01-28T13:04:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T18:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10660"},"modified":"2016-01-28T13:04:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T18:04:01","slug":"doug-fister-signs-one-year-deal-with-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2016\/01\/28\/doug-fister-signs-one-year-deal-with-astros\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Fister signs one-year deal with Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10661\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/dougfister.jpg\" alt=\"dougfister\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/dougfister.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/dougfister-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A down season led to Doug Fister finding a tough market. That has allowed the Astros to sign the 31-year-old to a one-year deal worth $7 million guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>Fister can earn another $5 million via incentives. He is believed to have been seeking a two-year deal north of $20 million but such a deal never came.<\/p>\n<p>By taking the one-year deal Fister can rebuild his stock in 2016 and try to cash in next year.<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of Fister the Astros rotation looks as good as anyone&#8217;s as it also features Dallas Keuchel, Collin McHugh, Lance McCullers and Scott Feldman.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Source: Fister gets 1-year, $7M deal from Astros. Deal can max out at $12M if performance bonuses are reached.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisCotillo\/status\/692755501768163328\">January 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In 25 games last year Fister made 15 starts finishing 5-7 with a save and a 4.19 ERA and a 1.40 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A down season led to Doug Fister finding a tough market. That has allowed the Astros to sign the 31-year-old to a one-year deal worth $7 million guaranteed. Fister can earn another $5 million via incentives. He is believed to have been seeking a two-year deal north of $20 million but such a deal never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[533,93,501,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-doug-fister","9":"tag-houston-astros","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660","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=10660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10662,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660\/revisions\/10662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10660"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}