{"id":5155,"date":"2013-11-06T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5155"},"modified":"2013-11-06T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:45:08","slug":"rangers-proclaim-geovany-soto-as-primary-catcher-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/11\/06\/rangers-proclaim-geovany-soto-as-primary-catcher-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers proclaim Geovany Soto as primary catcher for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5149\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5149\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/geovanysoto.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/geovanysoto.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/geovanysoto-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Texas Rangers re-signed catcher Geovany Soto on Tuesday and announced that they play to use him as their primary catcher for the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We signed him with the expectation that he will be our regular, our primary catcher in 2014,&#8221; general manager Jon Daniels said. &#8220;I think we&#8217;ve got a lot of Rangers pitchers who are going to be very happy about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Soto served as a backup behind A.J. Pierzysnki last season\u00a0hitting .245\/.328\/.466 with nine home runs and 22 BRI in 54 games.<\/p>\n<p>The new deal for Soto will pay him $3.05 million but the one year timetable hardly screams that the Rangers are completly out of the market for a catcher. They have been known to be interested in free agent Brian McCann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers re-signed catcher Geovany Soto on Tuesday and announced that they play to use him as their primary catcher for the 2014 season. &#8220;We signed him with the expectation that he will be our regular, our primary catcher in 2014,&#8221; general manager Jon Daniels said. &#8220;I think we&#8217;ve got a lot of Rangers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[510,501,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-geovany-soto","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155","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=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}