{"id":5774,"date":"2013-12-23T11:45:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T16:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5774"},"modified":"2013-12-23T11:45:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T16:45:44","slug":"dodgers-sign-chris-perez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/23\/dodgers-sign-chris-perez\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers sign Chris Perez"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5775\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5775\" alt=\"chrisperez\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/chrisperez.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/chrisperez.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/chrisperez-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nThe Los Angeles Dodgers have reached agreement with relief pitcher Chris Perez on a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Perez previously racked up 132 saves while pitching for the Cleveland Indians but he will not be the go to go in Los Angeles. The 28-year-old Perez will occupy a spot ahead of Brian Wilson and closer Kenley Jansen in the Dodgers bullpen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Source: Free-agent reliever Chris Perez, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Dodgers&amp;src=hash\">#Dodgers<\/a> in agreement on one-year deal, pending a physical. Perez is taking his physical today.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/415153631743467520\">December 23, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There was some speculation that Perez would hold out for a closer gig but the veteran has opted to take the money from the Dodgers instead.<\/p>\n<p>Perez finished last year with 25 saves and a 4.33 ERA, 1.43 WHIP and 5\/21 K\/BB ration in 5 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers have reached agreement with relief pitcher Chris Perez on a one-year deal. Perez previously racked up 132 saves while pitching for the Cleveland Indians but he will not be the go to go in Los Angeles. The 28-year-old Perez will occupy a spot ahead of Brian Wilson and closer Kenley Jansen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[488,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-5774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chris-perez","tag-front","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774","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=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}