{"id":11890,"date":"2019-12-23T19:12:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T00:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11890"},"modified":"2019-12-23T19:12:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T00:12:22","slug":"astros-in-agreement-with-maldonado-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2019\/12\/23\/astros-in-agreement-with-maldonado-on-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros in agreement with Maldonado on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11891\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/martinmaldonado-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/martinmaldonado-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/martinmaldonado-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/martinmaldonado-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/martinmaldonado-696x464.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/martinmaldonado-1068x712.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/martinmaldonado-630x420.jpg 630w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/martinmaldonado.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Astros will be bringing back Martin Maldonado for the 2020 season after the team and catcher reached an agreement on a new two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Maldonado, 33, appeared in 27 games for the Astros in 2019 and 41 games for them in 2018. He also saw time with the Royals and Cubs last season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">C Martin Maldonado has agreed to a two-year, $7M deal with the Astros, per a source. Maldonado had multiple offers, but took less money to return to Houston.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Feinsand\/status\/1208193862931496961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A career .219\/.389.355 hitter, the Astros are looking at the stability and defense that Maldonado brings behind the plate in giving him a guaranteed $7 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Astros will be bringing back Martin Maldonado for the 2020 season after the team and catcher reached an agreement on a new two-year deal. Maldonado, 33, appeared in 27 games for the Astros in 2019 and 41 games for them in 2018. He also saw time with the Royals and Cubs last season. C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,93,1167,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-houston-astros","10":"tag-martin-maldonado","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11890","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=11890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11892,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11890\/revisions\/11892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11890"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}