{"id":6034,"date":"2014-01-22T11:50:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T16:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6034"},"modified":"2014-01-22T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T16:52:07","slug":"as-sign-eric-oflaherty-to-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/22\/as-sign-eric-oflaherty-to-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;s sign Eric O&#8217;Flaherty to two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/20140122-1147042.jpg\" alt=\"20140122-114704.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nThe Oakland Athletics have signed left-handed relief pitcher Eric O&#8217;Flaherty to a two-year contract. <\/p>\n<p>Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports tweeted out that the deal is worth $7 million. <\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Flaherty will turn 29 before Spring Training gets underway. He appeared in 19 games last season finishing with a 2.50 ERA and a 0.94 WHIP. <\/p>\n<p>The Braves have relied heavily on O&#8217;Flaherty since 2009 and early indications were that he would rejoin the team on a one-year deal but discussions broke down likely due to compensation. <\/p>\n<p>During his time in Atlanta, O\u2019Flaherty has appeared in 295 games with a 1.99 ERA and a 1.16 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Flaherty will likely have to wait until May to debut with the Athletics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Athletics have signed left-handed relief pitcher Eric O&#8217;Flaherty to a two-year contract. Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports tweeted out that the deal is worth $7 million. O\u2019Flaherty will turn 29 before Spring Training gets underway. He appeared in 19 games last season finishing with a 2.50 ERA and a 0.94 WHIP. The Braves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034","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=6034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6034"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}