{"id":5671,"date":"2013-12-17T13:01:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T18:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2013-12-17T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T18:01:54","slug":"yankees-sign-reliever-matt-thornton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/17\/yankees-sign-reliever-matt-thornton\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees sign reliever Matt Thornton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5672\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/mattthornton.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Thornton has joined the Yankees\" width=\"594\" height=\"387\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5672\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/mattthornton.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/mattthornton-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/mattthornton-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe New York Yankees have signed reliever Matt Thornton to a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton, 37, spent last season split between the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran left hander finished 2013 with a 3.74 ERA and a 1.43 WHIP but held left handed batters to a .235 batting average. He will earn $7 million over the course of the two-year deal with the Yankees.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Yankees have signed lefty reliever Matt Thornton to a 2-year deal. He will make $3.5 million each season.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jack Curry (@JackCurryYES) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackCurryYES\/statuses\/412997516062654464\">December 17, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thornton will take over for another former White Sox left hander in Boone Logan. The Rockies signed Logan to a three-year deal worth $16.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else Thornton should offer the White Sox a capable left handed relief arm. Earlier on Monday the Yankees came to terms on a <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/17\/yankees-on-verge-of-signing-brian-roberts\/\" title=\"Yankees sign infielder Brian Roberts\">contract with second baseman<\/a> Brian Roberts, formerly of the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees have signed reliever Matt Thornton to a two-year contract. Thornton, 37, spent last season split between the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox. The veteran left hander finished 2013 with a 3.74 ERA and a 1.43 WHIP but held left handed batters to a .235 batting average. He will earn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[400,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-matt-thornton","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671","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=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}