{"id":5600,"date":"2013-12-13T18:03:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T23:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5600"},"modified":"2013-12-13T18:03:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T23:03:13","slug":"royals-reach-four-year-deal-with-omar-infante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/13\/royals-reach-four-year-deal-with-omar-infante\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals reach four-year deal with Omar Infante"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5601\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/omarinfante.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"428\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/omarinfante.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/omarinfante-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Kansas City Royals have beaten out the New York Yankees for the services of Omar Infante.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday the Royals reached a four-year deal with the 31-year-old Infante worth $30 million.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Infante hit .318\/.345\/.450 with 10 home runs and 51 RBI in 118 games for the Tigers. He will be a significant upgrade for the Royals at second base.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Infante and the Royals have agreed to terms on that four-year deal mentioned before.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Buster_ESPN\/statuses\/411629359372308480\">December 13, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what the Yankees intentions are for second base after losing out on Robinson Cano and now Infante. Earlier this winter they <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/04\/yankees-sign-kelly-johnson-to-one-year-deal\/\" title=\"Yankees sign Kelly Johnson to one-year deal\">signed Kelly Johnson<\/a> but he is expected to serve in a utility role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals have beaten out the New York Yankees for the services of Omar Infante. On Friday the Royals reached a four-year deal with the 31-year-old Infante worth $30 million. Last season Infante hit .318\/.345\/.450 with 10 home runs and 51 RBI in 118 games for the Tigers. He will be a significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,137,501,565],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-kansas-city-royals","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-omar-infante"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600","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=5600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5600"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}