{"id":5422,"date":"2013-12-03T21:05:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T02:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2013-12-03T23:38:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T04:38:27","slug":"justin-morneau-close-to-two-year-deal-with-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/03\/justin-morneau-close-to-two-year-deal-with-rockies\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Morneau gets two-year deal with Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5423\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/justinmorneau.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5423\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/justinmorneau.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/justinmorneau-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Colorado Rockies had been targeting Justin Morneau as the replacement for Todd Helton and on Tuesday signed the former MVP to a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Morneau will make $13 million over two seasons after he hit just\u00a0.259\/.323\/.411 season with 17 homers and 77 RBI in 152 games last season. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23rockies&amp;src=hash\">#rockies<\/a> are closing in on 2 yr deal w Morneau. Some wrinkles to iron out. But in final stages<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Troy Renck (@TroyRenck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TroyRenck\/statuses\/408042334756958208\">December 4, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Rockies traded center fielder Dexter Fowler to the Astros earlier on Tuesday and are planning to keep Michael Cuddyer in right field rather than shift him to first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Rockies had been targeting Justin Morneau as the replacement for Todd Helton and on Tuesday signed the former MVP to a two-year deal. Morneau will make $13 million over two seasons after he hit just\u00a0.259\/.323\/.411 season with 17 homers and 77 RBI in 152 games last season. #rockies are closing in on 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[190,422],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-colorado-rockies","9":"tag-justin-morneau"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422","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=5422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}