{"id":5447,"date":"2013-12-05T13:58:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T18:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2013-12-05T13:58:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T18:58:29","slug":"official-mariners-sign-willie-bloomquist-to-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/05\/official-mariners-sign-willie-bloomquist-to-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Mariners sign Willie Bloomquist to two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5448\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/williebloomquist.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/williebloomquist.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/williebloomquist-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nI have to admit Willie Bloomquest is not someone I expected to sign a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>In fact I would not have been surprised to see Bloomquist latch on to a team with a minor league deal. Instead the 36-year-old was signed to a two-year deal by the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Sources: Bloomquist deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Mariners&amp;src=hash\">#Mariners<\/a> is $5.8M for two years.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/407601347211833346\">December 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A deal between Bloomquist and the Mariners was first announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Under terms of Bloomquist&#8217;s new deal he will make $5.8 million over the net two seasons as a utility player for the Mariners.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomquist appeared in just 48 games for the Arizona Diamondbacks lat season hitting .317\/.360\/.367 with 14 RBI. In his career Bloomquist is a .271\/.320\/.346 hitter and is best known for his glove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit Willie Bloomquest is not someone I expected to sign a two-year deal. In fact I would not have been surprised to see Bloomquist latch on to a team with a minor league deal. Instead the 36-year-old was signed to a two-year deal by the Seattle Mariners. Sources: Bloomquist deal with #Mariners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447","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=5447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}