{"id":5275,"date":"2013-11-22T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5275"},"modified":"2013-11-22T09:16:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T14:16:45","slug":"mets-sign-chris-young-still-pursuing-nelson-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/11\/22\/mets-sign-chris-young-still-pursuing-nelson-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets sign Chris Young, still pursuing Nelson Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5276\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5276\" alt=\"chrisyoung\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/chrisyoung.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/chrisyoung.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/chrisyoung-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The New York Mets have signed outfielder Chris Young to a one-year contract. Young, 30, \u00a0has struggled the last to seasons but offers a low-risk\/high-upside addition to the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Young would appear to be on track to be in the outfield come opening day.\u00a0Last season Young hit .200\/.380\/.379 with 12 home runs in 107 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets also &#8220;remain in the mix&#8221; for Nelson Cruz reports Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, 33, as said to be asking for five years and $75 million when the offeseason began but that number has reportedly dropped.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Mets&amp;src=hash\">#Mets<\/a>, after reaching agreement with OF Chris Young, remain in the mix for another right-handed hitting outfielder, Nelson Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/403871483602411520\">November 22, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cruz served a 50 game suspension last season for PEDs and ended 2012 with a .266\/.327\/.506 line to go with 27 home runs and 76 RBI over 109 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Mets have signed outfielder Chris Young to a one-year contract. Young, 30, \u00a0has struggled the last to seasons but offers a low-risk\/high-upside addition to the Mets. Young would appear to be on track to be in the outfield come opening day.\u00a0Last season Young hit .200\/.380\/.379 with 12 home runs in 107 games. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[522,503,501,523,76],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chris-young","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-nelson-cruz","12":"tag-new-york-mets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275","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=5275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5275"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}