{"id":3810,"date":"2013-07-23T11:39:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T15:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2013-07-23T14:33:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T18:33:14","slug":"dodgers-sign-cuban-shortstop-alexander-guerrero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/23\/dodgers-sign-cuban-shortstop-alexander-guerrero\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers have not yet signed Cuban shortstop Alexander Guerrero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3811\" alt=\"alexg\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/alexg.jpg\" width=\"513\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/alexg.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/alexg-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers have not yet signed short stop Alexander Guerrero according to Guerrero&#8217;s agent, who confirmed the information to Jesse Sanchez of MLB.com. This comes after earlier reports that the Dodgers had reached a deal worth $32 million.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Guerrero still needs to be unblocked by the United States government before he can sign with a team.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez hears that Guerrero has a showcase scheduled for Wednesday while a total of three teams are believed to be in the mix to sign him.<\/p>\n<p>The report earlier was first reported by CDN (a non- English source) and was then confirmed by Dionisio Soldevila of ESPN Deportes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Source: Dodgers sign Cuban IF Alexander Guerrero for $32 million and 7 years<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dionisio Soldevila (@dSoldevila) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dSoldevila\/statuses\/359690613874106368\">July 23, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guerrero defected from Cuba at the beginning of 2013. Although he has played short stop most of his career, he can also play second base.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED<\/strong>: <a title=\"Dodgers not in on Cuban pitcher Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/23\/dodgers-not-in-on-cuban-pitcher-miguel-alfredo-gonzalez\/\">Dodgers are not in on Cuban pitcher Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guerrero hit .338\/.408\/.641 in 2009, .343\/.414\/.583 in 2010 and .310\/.400\/.599 in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers have not yet signed short stop Alexander Guerrero according to Guerrero&#8217;s agent, who confirmed the information to Jesse Sanchez of MLB.com. This comes after earlier reports that the Dodgers had reached a deal worth $32 million. Apparently Guerrero still needs to be unblocked by the United States government before he can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}