{"id":5403,"date":"2013-12-03T08:35:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5403"},"modified":"2013-12-03T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T15:55:21","slug":"report-pierzynski-signs-with-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/03\/report-pierzynski-signs-with-red-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pierzynski signs with Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5367\" alt=\"ajpierzynski\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ajpierzynski.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ajpierzynski.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ajpierzynski-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Boston Red Sox have signed free agent catcher A.J. Pierzysnki to a contract.<\/p>\n<p>Pierzynski, 36, played the 2013 season on a one-year contract with the Texas Rangers responding with a .272\/.297\/.425 line with 17 home runs and 70 RBI over 134 games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>aj pierzynski, red sox agree to a deal<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeymanCBS\/statuses\/407858124469436418\">December 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The move essentially means that the Red Sox have moved on from Jarrod Saltalamacchia who is seeking a deal up to three years.<\/p>\n<p>David Ross will enter the 2014 season as the backup catcher with minor leaguers Blake Swihart and Christian Vazquez both close to being ready for major league action.<\/p>\n<p>Pierzynski will make $8.25 million in 2014 up from the $7.5 million he made in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox have signed free agent catcher A.J. Pierzysnki to a contract. Pierzynski, 36, played the 2013 season on a one-year contract with the Texas Rangers responding with a .272\/.297\/.425 line with 17 home runs and 70 RBI over 134 games. aj pierzynski, red sox agree to a deal \u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[337,27,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-5403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-a-j-pierzynski","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403","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=5403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5403"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}