{"id":5938,"date":"2014-01-14T20:23:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T01:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5938"},"modified":"2014-01-14T20:23:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T01:23:17","slug":"nyjer-morgan-joins-indians-on-a-minor-league-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/14\/nyjer-morgan-joins-indians-on-a-minor-league-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyjer Morgan joins Indians on a minor league contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5939\" alt=\"nyjermorgan\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/nyjermorgan.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/nyjermorgan.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/nyjermorgan-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Cleveland Indians have signed outfielder Nyjer Morgan to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan spent the 2013 season in Japan hitting .294\/.361\/.434 with 11 homers, 50 RBI and three stolen bases in 108 games last season with the Yokohama DeNa BayStars of Japan\u2019s Central League.<\/p>\n<p>With the Indians loaded with left-handed hitting options it&#8217;s no certainty that Morgan will make the Indians roster for Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p>During six big league seasons Morgan owns a .280\/.341\/.364 with 11 home runs and 130 RBI in 583 games. Morgan is capable of playing playing all three outfield positions and has spent a large part of his career in center field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Indians have signed outfielder Nyjer Morgan to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. Morgan spent the 2013 season in Japan hitting .294\/.361\/.434 with 11 homers, 50 RBI and three stolen bases in 108 games last season with the Yokohama DeNa BayStars of Japan\u2019s Central League. With the Indians loaded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[156,603],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-5938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-cleveland-indians","tag-nyjer-morgan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938","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=5938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}