{"id":6060,"date":"2014-01-23T15:18:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2014-01-23T15:18:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:18:27","slug":"rays-sign-grant-balfour-to-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/23\/rays-sign-grant-balfour-to-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays sign Grant Balfour to two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/grantbalfour.jpg\" alt=\"grantbalfour\" width=\"594\" height=\"432\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5913\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/grantbalfour.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/grantbalfour-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nReliever Grant Balfour has agreed to a two-year deal from the Tampa Bay Rays worth $12 million according to Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times.<\/p>\n<p>Balfour was said to have reached an agreement with the Baltimore Orioles earlier this offseason which was worth $15 million but the team had concerns about his knee.<\/p>\n<p>Balfour pitched in 65 games notching 38 saves with a 2.59 ERA and a 1.20 WHIP with the Oaland Atheltics in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reliever Grant Balfour has agreed to a two-year deal from the Tampa Bay Rays worth $12 million according to Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. Balfour was said to have reached an agreement with the Baltimore Orioles earlier this offseason which was worth $15 million but the team had concerns about his knee. Balfour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[570,179],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-grant-balfour","9":"tag-tampa-bay-rays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060","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=6060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6060"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}