{"id":5478,"date":"2013-12-06T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2013-12-06T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T20:34:08","slug":"marlins-closing-in-on-deal-with-garrett-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/06\/marlins-closing-in-on-deal-with-garrett-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins closing in on deal with Garrett Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5479\" alt=\"garrettjones\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/garrettjones.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/garrettjones.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/garrettjones-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Miami Marlins are close to a deal with Garrett Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, 32, spent the 2013 season with the Pittsburgh Pirates\u00a0hitting .233\/.289\/.419 with 15 home runs and 51 RBI in 144 games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Signing of G. Jones by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Marlins&amp;src=hash\">#Marlins<\/a> will mean no Napoli in Miami and likely lead to a trade of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LoMoMarlins\">@LoMoMarlins<\/a> (Logan Morrison).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/409032843277647872\">December 6, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The deal between the Marlins and Jones is said to be worth $7-8 million. Jones becomes the latest signing for the Marlins who earlier landed catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia and second baseman Rafael Furcal.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by Ken Rosenthal, a deal with Jones would end the Marlins pursuit of Mike Napoli and likely lead to the trade of Logan Morrison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Marlins are close to a deal with Garrett Jones. Jones, 32, spent the 2013 season with the Pittsburgh Pirates\u00a0hitting .233\/.289\/.419 with 15 home runs and 51 RBI in 144 games. Signing of G. Jones by #Marlins will mean no Napoli in Miami and likely lead to a trade of @LoMoMarlins (Logan Morrison). \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[543,24],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-garrett-jones","9":"tag-miami-marlins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478","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=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}