{"id":6222,"date":"2014-02-04T18:18:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T23:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6222"},"modified":"2014-02-04T18:18:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T23:18:40","slug":"sam-fuld-signs-with-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/04\/sam-fuld-signs-with-as\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Fuld signs with A&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5826\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/samfuld.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Fuld with the Tampa Bay Rays in 2013\" width=\"594\" height=\"403\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5826\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/samfuld.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/samfuld-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Oakland Athletics have signed outfielder Sam Fuld to a minor league contract.<\/p>\n<p>Fuld, 32, will receive an invitation to spring training and could make $800,000 if he makes the A&#8217;s out of spring training. His contract includes an additional $100,000 in incentives.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Athletics&amp;src=hash\">#Athletics<\/a> sign Sam Fuld to one-year, minor-league deal. Worth $800K in majors plus $100K in incentives for games played.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/430806434683838464\">February 4, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The deal also provides Fuld with opt-out dates in late March and June 1. He hit just .199\/.270\/.267 over 200 plate appearances last season with the Tampa Bay Rays. His versatility and speed could help him land a bench spot with the A&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Athletics have signed outfielder Sam Fuld to a minor league contract. Fuld, 32, will receive an invitation to spring training and could make $800,000 if he makes the A&#8217;s out of spring training. His contract includes an additional $100,000 in incentives. Source: #Athletics sign Sam Fuld to one-year, minor-league deal. Worth $800K in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[501,272,594,179],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-oakland-athletics","10":"tag-sam-fuld","11":"tag-tampa-bay-rays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222","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=6222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}