{"id":5597,"date":"2013-12-13T17:51:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T22:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2013-12-13T17:51:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T22:51:31","slug":"james-loney-re-signs-with-rays-with-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/13\/james-loney-re-signs-with-rays-with-three-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"James Loney re-signs with Rays with three-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/jamesloney.jpg\" alt=\"jamesloney\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5598\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/jamesloney.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/jamesloney-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nJames Loney will return to the Tampa Bay Rays in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Loney, 29, spent the 2013 season with the Rays batting .299\/.348.\/.430 with 13 home runs and 75 RBI in 158 games. He drew interest from multiple teams in free agency but ultimately will return to the Rays after being given a three-year deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source: Loney to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Rays&amp;src=hash\">#Rays<\/a>, three years, $21M, pending physical.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/411623728427319296\">December 13, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Rays will pay the first baseman $21 million over the course of the new deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Loney will return to the Tampa Bay Rays in 2014. Loney, 29, spent the 2013 season with the Rays batting .299\/.348.\/.430 with 13 home runs and 75 RBI in 158 games. He drew interest from multiple teams in free agency but ultimately will return to the Rays after being given a three-year deal. Source: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,538,501,179],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-james-loney","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-tampa-bay-rays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","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=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}