{"id":1726,"date":"2013-03-24T21:49:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T01:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2013-03-24T21:49:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T01:49:48","slug":"vernon-wells-traded-to-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/03\/24\/vernon-wells-traded-to-yankees\/","title":{"rendered":"Vernon Wells traded to Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/vernonwells.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1722\" alt=\"vernonwells\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/vernonwells.jpg\" width=\"673\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/vernonwells.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/vernonwells-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New York Yankees have acquired outfielder Vernon Wells from the Los Angeles Angels. Wells signed a massive contract with the Angels but has hit just .222 with 33 home runs over the last two seasons. There is $42 million left on the now 34 year old&#8217;s contract.<\/p>\n<p>Wells waived his no trade cause which was all that stood in the way of a deal getting done.<\/p>\n<p>The production from Granderson to Wells is a significant drop off but the Yankees are desperate for options to fill out their roster.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees will pay $13 million to Wells over the next two seasons, which means the Angels will pay $29 million for a player not on their team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees have acquired outfielder Vernon Wells from the Los Angeles Angels. Wells signed a massive contract with the Angels but has hit just .222 with 33 home runs over the last two seasons. There is $42 million left on the now 34 year old&#8217;s contract. Wells waived his no trade cause which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","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=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}