{"id":5680,"date":"2013-12-17T14:49:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T19:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5680"},"modified":"2013-12-17T14:49:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T19:49:22","slug":"orioles-and-grant-balfour-reach-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/17\/orioles-and-grant-balfour-reach-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles and Grant Balfour reach deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5631\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/grantbalfour.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"432\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5631\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/grantbalfour.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/grantbalfour-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe rumored deal between the Baltimore Orioles and pitcher Grant Balfour has been agreed to.<\/p>\n<p>Balfour has signed a two-year deal to become the closer of the Baltimore Orioles. The two-year deal will pay Balfour $14 million.<\/p>\n<p>In essence the Orioles simply traded closers with the Oakland Athletics. Earlier this winter the Orioles sent Jim Johnson to the A&#8217;s for Jemile Weeks. The Orioles signed Ryan Webb to a two-year deal worth $4.5 million shortly thereafter. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Balfour deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23orioles&amp;src=hash\">#orioles<\/a>: 2 years, $14 million with $500,000 deferred each year. Per source.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/masnRoch\/statuses\/413020146609836032\">December 17, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Balfour apparently had a few other offers on the table but is choosing the Orioles offer.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Balfour is coming off a season in which he saved 38 games and posted a 2.59 ERA and a 1.20 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rumored deal between the Baltimore Orioles and pitcher Grant Balfour has been agreed to. Balfour has signed a two-year deal to become the closer of the Baltimore Orioles. The two-year deal will pay Balfour $14 million. In essence the Orioles simply traded closers with the Oakland Athletics. Earlier this winter the Orioles sent Jim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,503,570,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-grant-balfour","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680","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=5680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5680"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}