{"id":5441,"date":"2013-12-04T21:25:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T02:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5441"},"modified":"2013-12-04T21:25:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T02:25:33","slug":"yankees-sign-kelly-johnson-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/04\/yankees-sign-kelly-johnson-to-one-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees sign Kelly Johnson to one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/kellyjohnson.jpg\" alt=\"kellyjohnson\" width=\"594\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5442\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/kellyjohnson.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/kellyjohnson-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe New York Yankees have signed infielder\/outfielder Kelly Johnson to a one-year deal worth $ 3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, 31, figures to play all over the diamond for the Yankees seeing time at second base, third base and the outfield. His signing does not rule out the Yankees re-signing free agent Robinson Cano.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>kelly johnson and yankees are in agreement. deal is pending physical. believed to be about $3M.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeymanCBS\/statuses\/408413998615257088\">December 5, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Johnson appeared in 118 games last season for Tampa Bay hittin g.235\/.305\/.410 but displayed power in his bat again hitting 16 home runs and driving in 52 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees have signed infielder\/outfielder Kelly Johnson to a one-year deal worth $ 3 million. Johnson, 31, figures to play all over the diamond for the Yankees seeing time at second base, third base and the outfield. His signing does not rule out the Yankees re-signing free agent Robinson Cano. kelly johnson and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[539,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-kelly-johnson","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441","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=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}