{"id":11019,"date":"2018-01-05T16:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T21:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11019"},"modified":"2018-01-05T16:22:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T21:22:58","slug":"former-braves-utility-player-jace-peterson-signs-with-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/01\/05\/former-braves-utility-player-jace-peterson-signs-with-yankees\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Braves utility player Jace Peterson signs with Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11020\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/01\/jacepeterson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/01\/jacepeterson.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/01\/jacepeterson-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jace Peterson was non-tendered by the Braves earlier this winter and now the veteran utility player has landed a minor league contract with the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson, 27, will also receive an invitation to spring training.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves opted to let Peterson go rather than give him a raise during his first year of salary arbitration. Known for his versatility of playing across the infield and outfield, Peterson is just a .234\/.319\/.331 hitter though his first four big league seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson&#8217;s chances of making the Yankees hinge largely on what the club plans to do with its top prospects Glyber Torres and\u00a0Miguel Andujar. The Yankees were linked to re-signing Todd Frazier earlier this winter but thus far there has not been a lot of movement towards a new deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jace Peterson was non-tendered by the Braves earlier this winter and now the veteran utility player has landed a minor league contract with the Yankees. Peterson, 27, will also receive an invitation to spring training. The Braves opted to let Peterson go rather than give him a raise during his first year of salary arbitration. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,1029,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-jace-peterson","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11019","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=11019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11021,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11019\/revisions\/11021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11019"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}