{"id":5429,"date":"2013-12-04T09:26:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T14:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5429"},"modified":"2013-12-04T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T14:28:10","slug":"curtis-granderson-and-meta-heat-up-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/04\/curtis-granderson-and-meta-heat-up-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Granderson and Mets heat up talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/20131204-092018.jpg\" alt=\"20131204-092018.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nThe New York Mets and outfielder Curtos Granderson continue to move towards a deal. <\/p>\n<p>Adam Rubin of ESPN New York was told by a source that talks between the Mets and the free agent outfielder &#8220;intensified&#8221; late Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Late Tuesday the New York Yankees, Granderson&#8217;s former team, signed Jacoby Ellsbury to a seven-year deal worth $153 million.  <\/p>\n<p>Whole Rubin&#8217;s report is hardly a guarantee that a deal is reached between the two sides it does come just days after Granderson met with Mets general manager Sandy Alderson for dinner. <\/p>\n<p>Currently the Mets are believed to be offering three years to Granderson. Tossing in a fourth year would almost certainly get this deal completed. <\/p>\n<p>Any team signing Granderson is hoping for a bouce-back after he hit just .229\/.317\/.407 with seven home runs and 15 RBI in 61 games last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Mets and outfielder Curtos Granderson continue to move towards a deal. Adam Rubin of ESPN New York was told by a source that talks between the Mets and the free agent outfielder &#8220;intensified&#8221; late Tuesday. Late Tuesday the New York Yankees, Granderson&#8217;s former team, signed Jacoby Ellsbury to a seven-year deal worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[353,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-5429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-curtis-granderson","tag-front","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429","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=5429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5429"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}