{"id":6199,"date":"2014-02-03T16:29:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T21:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6199"},"modified":"2014-02-03T16:29:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T21:29:49","slug":"astros-sign-jerome-williams-to-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/03\/astros-sign-jerome-williams-to-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros sign Jerome Williams to contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/jeromewilliams.jpg\" alt=\"jeromewilliams\" width=\"594\" height=\"398\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/jeromewilliams.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/jeromewilliams-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Houston Astros have signed pitcher Jerome Williams to a contract.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chris Cotillo, Williams new deal is of the major league variety where he will also have chances to earn some performance bonuses. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Astros&amp;src=hash\">#Astros<\/a> agree to deal with Jerome Williams, pending physical.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisCotillo\/statuses\/430424843998482432\">February 3, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Williams wanted to have a shot at a rotation spot and he will get that in Houston. The 32-year-old right hander threw 169 1\/3 innings for the Astros lat season finishing with a 4.57 ERA and a 1.39 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Angels non-tendered him at the end of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Astros have signed pitcher Jerome Williams to a contract. According to Chris Cotillo, Williams new deal is of the major league variety where he will also have chances to earn some performance bonuses. Source: #Astros agree to deal with Jerome Williams, pending physical. &mdash; Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) February 3, 2014 Williams wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[93,172],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-houston-astros","9":"tag-jerome-williams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199","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=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}