{"id":10696,"date":"2016-02-06T20:56:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T01:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10696"},"modified":"2016-02-06T20:56:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T01:56:58","slug":"gavin-floyd-signs-one-year-deal-with-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2016\/02\/06\/gavin-floyd-signs-one-year-deal-with-blue-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Floyd signs one-year deal with Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7085\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/gavinfloyd.jpg\" alt=\"gavinfloyd\" width=\"400\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/gavinfloyd.jpg 400w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/gavinfloyd-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays have given veteran right-hander Gavin Floyd a one-year contract worth $1 million. Floyd can earn another $1 million in incentives which are based on his number of days on the major league roster.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd had been emerging as a target of multiple teams looking to buy low so it is not a complete surprise to see him get a guaranteed deal despite playing in just 21 games over the last three seasons.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">gavin Floyd deal with jays is MLB deal for $1M, plus $1M in incentives based on days on active roster<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/696024814801285125\">February 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Floyd made seven appearances out of the Indians bullpen last year finishing with a 2.70 ERA and a 1.13 WHIP. It remains unclear where the Blue Jays plan to use him especially with Aaron Sanchez reportedly eyeing a return to the rotation. Floyd&#8217;s versatility may come in handy for the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Jays have given veteran right-hander Gavin Floyd a one-year contract worth $1 million. Floyd can earn another $1 million in incentives which are based on his number of days on the major league roster. Floyd had been emerging as a target of multiple teams looking to buy low so it is not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[309,501,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-gavin-floyd","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696","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=10696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10697,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions\/10697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10696"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}