{"id":5594,"date":"2013-12-13T15:52:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T20:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5594"},"modified":"2013-12-13T15:52:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T20:52:24","slug":"cubs-sign-ryan-roberts-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/13\/cubs-sign-ryan-roberts-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs sign Ryan Roberts to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5595\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ryanroberts.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"402\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5595\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ryanroberts.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ryanroberts-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Chicago Cubs have signed Ryan Roberts to a minor league contract.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts, 33, appeared in just 60 games for Tampa Bay before being let go in mid-August.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs deal with Roberts includes a invite to Spring Training. If he makes the roster he should have no trouble finding at-bats across the infield. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Cubs sign INF Ryan Roberts to a minor-league deal with invite to spring training.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patrick Mooney (@CSNMooney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSNMooney\/statuses\/411585925987069952\">December 13, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Roberts is a career .245\/.321\/.392 career hitter with 46 home runs and 169 RBI in parts of eight seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs have signed Ryan Roberts to a minor league contract. Roberts, 33, appeared in just 60 games for Tampa Bay before being let go in mid-August. The Cubs deal with Roberts includes a invite to Spring Training. If he makes the roster he should have no trouble finding at-bats across the infield. Cubs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,501,564],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-cubs","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-ryan-roberts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594","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=5594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5594"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}