{"id":11002,"date":"2017-12-20T16:22:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11002"},"modified":"2017-12-20T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:23:21","slug":"matt-adams-signs-one-year-deal-with-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2017\/12\/20\/matt-adams-signs-one-year-deal-with-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Adams signs one-year deal with Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/09\/mattadams.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10792\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/09\/mattadams.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/09\/mattadams-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nMatt Adams has signed a one-year deal with the Nationals. The deal is worth $4 million and contains another $500,000 which can be obtained though incentives. <\/p>\n<p>Adams, 29, was recently non tendered by the Braves. His signing places him behind Ryan Zimmerman at first while providing the Nationals with a player in the mold of Adam Lind who left via free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Adams shed 30 pounds prior to the start of the 2017 season and had one of the best of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Traded by the Cardinals to the Braves last season, Adams finished the year with a strong .274\/.319\/.522 batting line with 20 home runs and 65 RBI in 131 games. His ability to hit right handed pitching last season makes him a valuable off the bench option for the Nationals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Matt Adams has $4M deal with nats plus 500K incentives<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/943583601697984512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Adams he again finds himself on a team where his path to regular playing time is blocked. Previously he&#8217;s been blocked by Matt Carpenter and Freddy Freeman. <\/p>\n<p>Fans of the Braves are going to see the Nationals a bunch this season and the first time Adams delivers against them it&#8217;s going to serve as a reminder that the Braves could have kept him but opted against the roughly $5 million he&#8217;d make in arbitration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Adams has signed a one-year deal with the Nationals. The deal is worth $4 million and contains another $500,000 which can be obtained though incentives. Adams, 29, was recently non tendered by the Braves. His signing places him behind Ryan Zimmerman at first while providing the Nationals with a player in the mold of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[998,501,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-11002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-matt-adams","tag-mlb","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002","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=11002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11005,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions\/11005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11002"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}