{"id":5655,"date":"2013-12-16T17:05:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T22:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5655"},"modified":"2013-12-16T17:05:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T22:05:42","slug":"indians-reach-minor-league-pact-with-shaun-marcum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/16\/indians-reach-minor-league-pact-with-shaun-marcum\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians reach minor league pact with Shaun Marcum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5656\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/shaunmarcum.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5656\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/shaunmarcum.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/shaunmarcum-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Cleveland Indians have signed pitcher Shaun Marcum to a minor league contract.<\/p>\n<p>Marcum, 32, was limited to just 78 1\/3 innings in 2013 before he had to undergo thoracic outlet syndrome surgery. He is expected to be ready for Spring Training.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source: Shaun Marcum signs minor league deal with Indians. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOXSports1\">@FOXSports1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonmorosi\/statuses\/412701667394850816\">December 16, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Indians are hoping to have the same success with Marcum that they had last season with Scott Kazmir. Marcum&#8217;s deal is the second significant announcement in as many days from the Indians who previously <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/15\/indians-ink-closer-john-axford\/\" title=\"Indians ink closer John Axford\">announced a deal<\/a> with closer John Axford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Indians have signed pitcher Shaun Marcum to a minor league contract. Marcum, 32, was limited to just 78 1\/3 innings in 2013 before he had to undergo thoracic outlet syndrome surgery. He is expected to be ready for Spring Training. Source: Shaun Marcum signs minor league deal with Indians. @FOXSports1 &mdash; Jon Morosi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[156,460],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cleveland-indians","9":"tag-john-axford"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655","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=5655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5655"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}