{"id":5728,"date":"2013-12-19T13:32:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T18:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5728"},"modified":"2013-12-19T13:32:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T18:32:47","slug":"white-sox-sign-reliever-scott-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/19\/white-sox-sign-reliever-scott-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox sign reliever Scott Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5729\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5729\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/scottdowns.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5729\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/scottdowns.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/scottdowns-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Chicago White sox have added left handed relief pitcher Scott Downs to their bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>Downs, 37, remains one of the best left handed specialist in the game and will earn $4 million during the 2014 season. There is a vesting option attached to Downs&#8217; contract which can make it worth $8 million over two seasons.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source: Downs\u2019 deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23WhiteSox&amp;src=hash\">#WhiteSox<\/a> will be one year, $4M range with vesting option that could bring deal to about two years\/$8M.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/413715399155646464\">December 19, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last season Downs spent time split between the Los Angeles Angels and Atlanta Braves. He finished with a 2.49 ERA in 43 1\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago White sox have added left handed relief pitcher Scott Downs to their bullpen. Downs, 37, remains one of the best left handed specialist in the game and will earn $4 million during the 2014 season. There is a vesting option attached to Downs&#8217; contract which can make it worth $8 million over two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[181,501,427],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-white-sox","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-scott-downs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728","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=5728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5728"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}