{"id":5497,"date":"2013-12-06T23:32:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T04:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2013-12-06T23:32:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T04:32:08","slug":"yankees-sign-carlos-beltran-to-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/06\/yankees-sign-carlos-beltran-to-three-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees sign Carlos Beltran to three-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5301\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/carlosbeltran.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/carlosbeltran.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/carlosbeltran-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe New York Yankees have signed outfielder Carlos Beltran to a three-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Beltran, 36, will earn $45 million over the course of the contract as the Yankees have found a way to replace the bat of Robinson Cano in their lineup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Beltran deal is $45 m over 3 yrs<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Brown (@TBrownYahoo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBrownYahoo\/statuses\/409153060351389697\">December 7, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beltran, Jacoby Ellsbury, Alfonso Soriano, Brett Gardner and Ichiro Suzuki will form a crowded outfield which should also occupy the DH spot for much of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees did not re-sign Robinson Cano but the additions of Beltran, Ellsbury and Brian McCann should insure that they are competitive in the AL East this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees have signed outfielder Carlos Beltran to a three-year deal. Beltran, 36, will earn $45 million over the course of the contract as the Yankees have found a way to replace the bat of Robinson Cano in their lineup. Beltran deal is $45 m over 3 yrs \u2014 Tim Brown (@TBrownYahoo) December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[496,503,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-carlos-beltran","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497","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=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}