{"id":11989,"date":"2020-01-22T10:59:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11989"},"modified":"2020-01-22T10:59:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:59:58","slug":"royals-bring-back-alex-gordon-on-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2020\/01\/22\/royals-bring-back-alex-gordon-on-one-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals bring back Alex Gordon on one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0093.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0093.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0093-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0093-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0093-696x464.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0093-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex Gordon has been re-signed by the Royals.<\/p>\n<p>The news is the return of Gordon was confirmed by the team on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon, 35, has 10-5 rights but will waive them should the Royals look to trade him at the deadline. For waiving those rights he would earn $500,000 if traded.<\/p>\n<p>While Gordon&#8217;s bat has been a non-factor lately he still offers strong defense in the outfield picking up his seventh Gold Glove this past year. He produced a .266\/.345\/.396 line with 13 home runs, 76 RBI and five stolen bases over 150 games in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>A first round pick out of Nebraska, Gordon first made the big league club in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Gordon has been re-signed by the Royals. The news is the return of Gordon was confirmed by the team on Wednesday morning. Gordon, 35, has 10-5 rights but will waive them should the Royals look to trade him at the deadline. For waiving those rights he would earn $500,000 if traded. While Gordon&#8217;s bat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[914,503,137,501],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alex-gordon","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-kansas-city-royals","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989","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=11989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11990,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989\/revisions\/11990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11989"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}