{"id":5971,"date":"2014-01-16T22:09:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T03:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5971"},"modified":"2014-01-16T22:09:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T03:09:26","slug":"mets-avoid-arbitration-with-eric-young-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/16\/mets-avoid-arbitration-with-eric-young-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets avoid arbitration with Eric Young Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/ericyoungjr.jpg\" alt=\"ericyoungjr\" width=\"594\" height=\"372\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5972\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/ericyoungjr.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/ericyoungjr-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/ericyoungjr-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe New York Mets avoided arbitration with outfielder Eric Young Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Young Jr. and the Mets have agreed to a one-year deal worth $1.85 million in his first year of arbitration. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Mets&amp;src=hash\">#Mets<\/a> avoid arbitration with Eric Young Jr. He will be paid $1.85M<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Joelsherman1\/statuses\/424009428027703297\">January 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last season the 28-year-old Young hit .249\/.310\/.336 while scoring 70 runs and leading the National League with 46 stolen bases. <\/p>\n<p>For those playing fantasy baseball, Young will remain an interesting option on the Mets because of his steals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Mets avoided arbitration with outfielder Eric Young Jr. Young Jr. and the Mets have agreed to a one-year deal worth $1.85 million in his first year of arbitration. #Mets avoid arbitration with Eric Young Jr. He will be paid $1.85M &mdash; Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) January 17, 2014 Last season the 28-year-old Young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[371,76],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-eric-young-jr","9":"tag-new-york-mets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971","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=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}