{"id":6158,"date":"2014-01-31T18:55:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T23:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2014-01-31T18:55:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T23:55:38","slug":"red-sox-reach-deal-with-rich-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/31\/red-sox-reach-deal-with-rich-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox reach deal with Rich Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/richhill.jpg\" alt=\"richhill\" width=\"634\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6159\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/richhill.jpg 634w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/richhill-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Boston Red Sox have signed pitcher Rich Hill to a minor league contract.<\/p>\n<p>Hill will turn 34 in March and previously pitched with the Red Sox from 2010-2012 before going to Cleveland last year.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Sherman reported that Hill&#8217;s contract is worth $840,000 and that the left hander could also earn another $500,000 in appearance bonus. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Redsox&amp;src=hash\">#Redsox<\/a> signed LHR Rich Hill to minor lge deal. $840K in MLB. $500K in app bonuses. If not on MLB roster on 5\/15, 6\/30 can opt out.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Joelsherman1\/statuses\/429368741319962624\">January 31, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hill could also opt out of his deal if he is not on the MLB roster by May 15th or June 30th.<\/p>\n<p>During his first stint with the Red Sox, Hill appeared in 40 games posting a 1.14 ERA and 1.26 WHIP. Last seaosn he appeared in 63 games for the Indians finishing with a 6.28 ERA and a 1.73 WHIP. He did rack up 51 strike outs in 38 2\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox have signed pitcher Rich Hill to a minor league contract. Hill will turn 34 in March and previously pitched with the Red Sox from 2010-2012 before going to Cleveland last year. Joel Sherman reported that Hill&#8217;s contract is worth $840,000 and that the left hander could also earn another $500,000 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158","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=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}