{"id":10682,"date":"2016-02-02T14:13:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T19:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10682"},"modified":"2016-02-02T14:13:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T19:13:22","slug":"brendan-ryan-signs-minor-league-deal-with-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2016\/02\/02\/brendan-ryan-signs-minor-league-deal-with-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Ryan signs minor league deal with Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/02\/brendanryan.jpg\" alt=\"brendanryan\" width=\"600\" height=\"496\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/02\/brendanryan.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/02\/brendanryan-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Nationals have signed veteran infielder Brendan Ryan to a minor league contract.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan, 33, spent last season with the Yankees appearing in 47 games. He will go to spring training looking to crack the Nationals roster as a utility player. <\/p>\n<p>Ryan has never offered much with his bat at the big league level and has not had more than 400 plate appearances since 2012. He owns a career .232\/.295\/.315 line with 19 home runs and 203 RBI. He can play second base, third base and shortstop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nationals have signed veteran infielder Brendan Ryan to a minor league contract. Ryan, 33, spent last season with the Yankees appearing in 47 games. He will go to spring training looking to crack the Nationals roster as a utility player. Ryan has never offered much with his bat at the big league level and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[680,501,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brendan-ryan","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682","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=10682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10684,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682\/revisions\/10684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10682"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}