{"id":5875,"date":"2014-01-09T16:15:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T21:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5875"},"modified":"2014-01-09T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T21:15:51","slug":"nationals-sign-mike-fontenot-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/09\/nationals-sign-mike-fontenot-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals sign Mike Fontenot to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5876\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/mikefontenot.jpg\" alt=\"MIke Fontenot\" width=\"594\" height=\"404\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5876\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/mikefontenot.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/mikefontenot-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Washington Nationals have signed infielder Mike Fontenot to a minor league deal.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal, Fontenot will also receive an invitation to spring training. The 33-year-old Fontenot spent the 2013 season at the Triple-A level with the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n<p>Fontenot hit just .264\/.335\/.379 at Triple-A and appears to be simply depth for the Nationals after the team also <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/09\/jamey-carroll-returns-to-nationals-on-minor-league-deal\/\" title=\"Jamey Carroll returns to Nationals on minor league deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">signed Jame Carroll<\/a> on Thursday,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Nationals have signed infielder Mike Fontenot to a minor league deal. As part of the deal, Fontenot will also receive an invitation to spring training. The 33-year-old Fontenot spent the 2013 season at the Triple-A level with the Tampa Bay Rays. Fontenot hit just .264\/.335\/.379 at Triple-A and appears to be simply depth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-5875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875","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=5875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5875"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}