{"id":615,"date":"2012-11-28T18:47:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T23:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=615"},"modified":"2012-11-28T18:47:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T23:47:38","slug":"b-j-upton-agrees-to-deal-with-the-atlanta-braves-pending-physical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/11\/28\/b-j-upton-agrees-to-deal-with-the-atlanta-braves-pending-physical\/","title":{"rendered":"B.J Upton agrees to deal with the Atlanta Braves, pending physical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-617\" title=\"bjupton\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/11\/bjupton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/11\/bjupton.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/11\/bjupton-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta Braves and free agent center fielder B.J Upton have agreed to terms, CBSSports Jon Heyman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeymanCBS\/status\/273912330386034688\" target=\"_blank\">has <\/a>reported.The 28-year-old Upton is coming off a season in which he batted .246\/.298\/.454 for the Rays with 28 homers and 31 steals in 37 attempts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/11\/heyman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-618\" title=\"heyman\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/11\/heyman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/11\/heyman.jpg 505w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/11\/heyman-300x92.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Upton provides the Braves with right-handed power in their lineup. He has hit 70 homers since 2009, ninth among center fielders, but also struck out 169 times last year.<\/p>\n<p>Once finalized, Upton&#8217;s deal will be worth $75.25 million over five years, Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/273920774874726400\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-616\" title=\"rosenthal\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/11\/rosenthal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/11\/rosenthal.jpg 510w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/11\/rosenthal-300x102.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The signing of Upton certainly means that the Braves will part ways with incumbent center fielder Michael Bourn, who&#8217;s also a highly coveted free agent. The Washington Nationals are now the leading contender to sign Bourn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves and free agent center fielder B.J Upton have agreed to terms, CBSSports Jon Heyman has reported.The 28-year-old Upton is coming off a season in which he batted .246\/.298\/.454 for the Rays with 28 homers and 31 steals in 37 attempts. Upton provides the Braves with right-handed power in their lineup. He has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}