{"id":5843,"date":"2014-01-07T14:35:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T19:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5843"},"modified":"2014-01-07T14:35:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T19:35:28","slug":"padres-sign-xavier-nady-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/07\/padres-sign-xavier-nady-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres sign Xavier Nady to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5844\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5844\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/xaviernady.jpg\" alt=\"Xavier Nady is back in San Diego, previously played in Arizona\" width=\"594\" height=\"410\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5844\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/xaviernady.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/xaviernady-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe San Diego Padres have signed Xavier Nady to a minor league deal.<\/p>\n<p>Nady, 35, was a second round pick of the Padres back in 2000 and spent the first four years of his MLB career with the team. Last season he played at Triple-A for both Kansas City and Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal Nady will be invited to spring training. His signing is a relatively low-risk which could add depth to the bench or minor leagues.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Blast from the past. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Padres&amp;src=hash\">#Padres<\/a> sign OF Xavier Nady (2000-2005 with SD) to a Minor League deal with an invite to big league camp.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Corey Brock (@FollowThePadres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FollowThePadres\/statuses\/420627701620158464\">January 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nady last appeared in the major leagues in 2012 when he hit just .184\/.253\/.316 with four home runs and 13 RBI for Washington and San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Padres have signed Xavier Nady to a minor league deal. Nady, 35, was a second round pick of the Padres back in 2000 and spent the first four years of his MLB career with the team. Last season he played at Triple-A for both Kansas City and Colorado. As part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843","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=5843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5843"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}