{"id":11069,"date":"2018-01-15T22:17:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T03:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11069"},"modified":"2018-01-15T22:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T03:17:43","slug":"curtis-granderson-signs-one-year-deal-with-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/01\/15\/curtis-granderson-signs-one-year-deal-with-blue-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Granderson signs one-year deal with Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/01\/curtisgranderson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11070\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/01\/curtisgranderson.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/01\/curtisgranderson-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nOutfielder Curtis Granderson signed a one-year deal with the Blue Jays on Monday. The deal will pay the 36-year-old $5 million for the 2018 season.<\/p>\n<p>Granderson hit 26 home runs last season but that came with a dismal .212\/.323\/.452 batting line. The Blue Jays would figure to play him at a corner outfield spot against right-handed pitching. <\/p>\n<p>Ken Rosenthal was the first to report the news on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Free-agent outfielder Curtis Granderson in agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlueJays?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlueJays<\/a> on one-year, $5M contract, sources tell The Athletic. Deal also includes incentives and is pending a physical.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/953083134484144128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The signing of Granderson is another reminder that the team has moved on from Jose Bautista. <\/p>\n<p>Bautisa, 37, had spent the last 10 years with the Blue Jays but after he hit just .203\/.308\/.366 with 23 homers and 65 RBI last season in 157 games the Blue Jays exercised the $500,000 buyout they had on his contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outfielder Curtis Granderson signed a one-year deal with the Blue Jays on Monday. The deal will pay the 36-year-old $5 million for the 2018 season. Granderson hit 26 home runs last season but that came with a dismal .212\/.323\/.452 batting line. The Blue Jays would figure to play him at a corner outfield spot against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[353,501,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-curtis-granderson","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069","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=11069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11071,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069\/revisions\/11071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11069"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}