{"id":5649,"date":"2013-12-16T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T21:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2013-12-16T16:27:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T21:27:37","slug":"astros-sign-matt-albers-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/16\/astros-sign-matt-albers-to-one-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros sign Matt Albers to one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5495\" alt=\"mattalbers\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/mattalbers.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/mattalbers.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/mattalbers-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Houston Astros have signed relief pitcher Matt Albers to a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Albers began his career with the Astros and is coming off a strong season with the\u00a0Cleveland Indians where he compiled a 3.14 ERA and a 1.27 WHIP in 56 games.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Albers should begin the season in a set-up role for the Astros. He will make $2.25 million in 2014 while his contract includes an option for $3 million for 2015. The Astros could buy out the final season for $200,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Astros have signed relief pitcher Matt Albers to a one-year deal. Albers began his career with the Astros and is coming off a strong season with the\u00a0Cleveland Indians where he compiled a 3.14 ERA and a 1.27 WHIP in 56 games. The 30-year-old Albers should begin the season in a set-up role for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[93,544],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-5649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-houston-astros","tag-matt-albers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649","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=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}