{"id":11966,"date":"2020-01-08T17:23:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T22:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11966"},"modified":"2020-01-08T17:23:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T22:23:04","slug":"hector-rondon-inks-deal-with-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2020\/01\/08\/hector-rondon-inks-deal-with-diamondbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hector Rondon inks deal with Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11967\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/hectorrondon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/hectorrondon.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/hectorrondon-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Diamondbacks bolstered their bullpen on Wednesday adding veteran relief pitcher Hector Rondon.<\/p>\n<p>Rondon&#8217;s deal with the Diamondbacks is worth $3 million for the 2020 season and carries a club option for 2021. The deal is pending a physical exam.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jon Heyman, the option year in Rondon&#8217;s deal is worth $4 million and can rise to $5 million based on the number of games Rondon finishes in 2020. In 421 career games Rondon has 92 saves with most of them coming from 2014-2016 while with the Cubs as their closer. He was later moved out of that role for 2017 but upon landing with the Astros in 2018 picked up 15 saves.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rondon 2021 option: 4 M escalates to 5 M depending on Games finished # dbacks<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/1215017493380653058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last season Rondon pitched for the Astros posting a 3.71 ERA, 1.25 WHIP and a 48\/20 K\/BB ratio.<\/p>\n<p>The Diamondbacks figure to use Rondon in front of closer Archie Bradley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diamondbacks bolstered their bullpen on Wednesday adding veteran relief pitcher Hector Rondon. Rondon&#8217;s deal with the Diamondbacks is worth $3 million for the 2020 season and carries a club option for 2021. The deal is pending a physical exam. According to Jon Heyman, the option year in Rondon&#8217;s deal is worth $4 million and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[125,503,1177,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-11966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-front","tag-hector-rondon","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966","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=11966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11968,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966\/revisions\/11968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11966"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}