{"id":5980,"date":"2014-01-17T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T21:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5980"},"modified":"2014-01-17T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T21:18:10","slug":"tigers-avoid-arbitration-with-scherzer-and-albuquerque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/17\/tigers-avoid-arbitration-with-scherzer-and-albuquerque\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers avoid arbitration with Scherzer and Albuquerque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5981\" alt=\"maxscherzer\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/maxscherzer.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/maxscherzer.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/maxscherzer-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Detroit Tigers have avoided arbitration with pitchers Max Scherzer and Al Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer, 29, is in his final year of arbitration and is coming off a season that saw him win the AL Cy Young after posting a 21-3 record and 2.90 ERA. He will earn $15.525 million in 2014.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>scherzer, tigers agree at $15.525M<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeymanCBS\/statuses\/424274888832995329\">January 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers also avoided arbitration with reliever Al Alburquerque agreeing to a one-year deal worth $837,000.<\/p>\n<p>Albuquerque compiled a 4.59 ERA while striking out 70 batters in 49 innings in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Tigers have avoided arbitration with pitchers Max Scherzer and Al Albuquerque. Scherzer, 29, is in his final year of arbitration and is coming off a season that saw him win the AL Cy Young after posting a 21-3 record and 2.90 ERA. He will earn $15.525 million in 2014. scherzer, tigers agree at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[66,503,375,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-detroit-tigers","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-max-scherzer","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980","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=5980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5980"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}