{"id":5266,"date":"2013-11-21T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T21:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5266"},"modified":"2013-11-21T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T21:26:11","slug":"royals-land-jason-vargas-on-four-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/11\/21\/royals-land-jason-vargas-on-four-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals land Jason Vargas on four-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/20131121-162347.jpg\" alt=\"20131121-162347.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" target=\"new\" rel=\"nofollow\" \/><br \/>\nThe Kansas City Royals have reached an agreement with free agent pitcher Jason Vargas. <\/p>\n<p>Vargas will occupy a spot at the end of the rotation for the Royals who are looking to contend in the AL Central this season<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Vargas posted a 4.02 ERA and a 1.39 WHIP over 24 starts last season. <\/p>\n<p>Vargas&#8217; deal is for four seasons but no financial terms have been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals have reached an agreement with free agent pitcher Jason Vargas. Vargas will occupy a spot at the end of the rotation for the Royals who are looking to contend in the AL Central this season The 30-year-old Vargas posted a 4.02 ERA and a 1.39 WHIP over 24 starts last season. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,150,137,501],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-jason-vargas","10":"tag-kansas-city-royals","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5266","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=5266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5266"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}