{"id":1302,"date":"2013-02-06T14:12:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T19:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2013-02-06T14:12:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T19:12:51","slug":"nationals-sign-former-pitcher-micah-owings-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/02\/06\/nationals-sign-former-pitcher-micah-owings-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals sign former pitcher Micah Owings to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1303\" alt=\"micahowings\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/micahowings.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/micahowings.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/micahowings-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Nationals have signed Micah Owings to a minor league deal. Owings, 30, was called a first-basemen in the teams announcement suggesting that he has given up pitching. Owings pitched for six seasons at the major league level.<\/p>\n<p>As a pitcher Owings compiled a 4.86 ERA and 32-33 record over 68 starts and 70 relief appearances, he had trouble with injuries and control.<\/p>\n<p>Owings made the switch to become a position last season while with San Diego. Owings played one game at first-base at the Triple-A level last season.<\/p>\n<p>How much of an impact Owings will make as a position player will be an interesting storyline to follow in spring training. In theory if he proves to be a serviceable bat he could also pitch for the team in worst case scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>In 219 major league plate appearances, the right-handed batter has a .283\/.310\/.502 with nine home runs and 35 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Nationals have signed Micah Owings to a minor league deal. Owings, 30, was called a first-basemen in the teams announcement suggesting that he has given up pitching. Owings pitched for six seasons at the major league level. As a pitcher Owings compiled a 4.86 ERA and 32-33 record over 68 starts and 70 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[195,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-micah-owings","9":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","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=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}