{"id":11101,"date":"2018-01-29T18:43:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T23:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11101"},"modified":"2018-01-29T18:43:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T23:43:42","slug":"hes-still-here-danny-espinosa-signs-with-yanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/01\/29\/hes-still-here-danny-espinosa-signs-with-yanks\/","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s still here: Danny Espinosa signs with Yanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/01\/dannyespinosa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11102\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/01\/dannyespinosa.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/01\/dannyespinosa-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nDanny Espinosa has signed a minor league deal with the Yankees. The deal for the 30-year-old includes an invitation to spring training.<\/p>\n<p>Espinosa could be a candidate to make the Yankees opening day roster and gain early season at-bats while the team tries to keep the service clock of some of their younger talent from starting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">According to a source, Danny Espinosa has agreed to a deal with the Yankees and will be a non-roster invitee at camp. He will compete for the second base job this spring.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Feinsand\/status\/958116950969847808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Expectations for Espinosa should be tempered after he hit just .173\/.245\/.278 between the Angels, Mariners and Rays a season ago.<\/p>\n<p>Espinosa did manage 24 home runs with the Nationals as recently as 2016 so perhaps the Yankees can catch lightning in a bottle here.<\/p>\n<p>Know by some for his facial hair, Espinosa did save his face when playing for the Rays last season. The Yankees have a no beard policy so expecting anything past a mustache is too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Espinosa has signed a minor league deal with the Yankees. The deal for the 30-year-old includes an invitation to spring training. Espinosa could be a candidate to make the Yankees opening day roster and gain early season at-bats while the team tries to keep the service clock of some of their younger talent from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[1041,503,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-danny-espinosa","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101","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=11101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11103,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101\/revisions\/11103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11101"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}