{"id":5834,"date":"2014-01-06T19:42:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T00:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5834"},"modified":"2014-01-06T19:42:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T00:42:39","slug":"indians-sign-jeff-francoeur-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/06\/indians-sign-jeff-francoeur-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians sign Jeff Francoeur to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5835\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5835\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5835\" alt=\"Jeff Francoeur is now an Indian\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/jefffrancoeur.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/jefffrancoeur.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/jefffrancoeur-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty iamges<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Cleveland Indians announced the signing of outfielder Jeff Francoeur on Monday.\u00a0Francoeur&#8217;s deal with the Indians includes an invitation to spring training.<\/p>\n<p>Francoeur, 29, hit just .204\/.238\/.298 with three home runs and 17 RBI last season while splitting time between Kansas City and San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>No longer an everyday player the Indians are likely to give Francoeur a chance at a platoon role where he could face left handed pitchers. In his career he holds a\u00a0\u00a0.285\/.335\/.465 line against south-paws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Indians announced the signing of outfielder Jeff Francoeur on Monday.\u00a0Francoeur&#8217;s deal with the Indians includes an invitation to spring training. Francoeur, 29, hit just .204\/.238\/.298 with three home runs and 17 RBI last season while splitting time between Kansas City and San Francisco. No longer an everyday player the Indians are likely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[156,503,138,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-5834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-cleveland-indians","tag-front","tag-jeff-francoeur","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834","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=5834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5834"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}