{"id":5723,"date":"2013-12-19T09:45:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T14:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5723"},"modified":"2013-12-19T09:45:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T14:45:56","slug":"reds-sign-chien-ming-wang-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/19\/reds-sign-chien-ming-wang-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds sign Chien-Ming Wang to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5724\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/chienmingwang.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"330\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5724\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/chienmingwang.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/chienmingwang-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Cincinnati Reds have agreed o a contract with right handed pitcher Chien-Ming Wang. <\/p>\n<p>Wang, 33, has appeared in just 27 games since the start of the 2011 season. The right hander who won 38 games from 2006-2007 made six starts with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2013 compiling a 1-2 record, 7.67 ERA and a 1.82 WHIP.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Yankees&amp;src=hash\">#Yankees<\/a> Chien Ming Wang signed with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Reds&amp;src=hash\">#Reds<\/a> for Minor League contract with Spring Training Invitation. Will earn $1.25M if in 25 man.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Peter Wang (@peterhlwang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterhlwang\/statuses\/413578795489054720\">December 19, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Peter Wang of Eastern Television reports that Wang will earn $1.25 million if he makes the Reds roster out of spring training.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds are not the only NL Central team hoping for success with a reclamation project.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Sanchez and the Chicago Cubs have come to terms on a minor league deal.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez, 31, rose to fame with his 2009 no-hitter but has come on hard times of late. The last two seasons have been especially difficult for Sanchez who compiled a 1-12 record, 8.73 ERA and 2.15 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cincinnati Reds have agreed o a contract with right handed pitcher Chien-Ming Wang. Wang, 33, has appeared in just 27 games since the start of the 2011 season. The right hander who won 38 games from 2006-2007 made six starts with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2013 compiling a 1-2 record, 7.67 ERA and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,384,300,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-cubs","9":"tag-cincinnati-reds","10":"tag-jonathan-sanchez","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723","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=5723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5723"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}