{"id":6257,"date":"2014-02-06T19:30:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T00:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6257"},"modified":"2014-02-06T19:30:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T00:30:01","slug":"baltimore-orioles-avoid-arbitration-agree-to-deal-with-matt-wieters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/06\/baltimore-orioles-avoid-arbitration-agree-to-deal-with-matt-wieters\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Orioles avoid arbitration, agree to deal with Matt Wieters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6258\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6258\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6258\" alt=\"GI\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/wieters.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/wieters.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/wieters-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Baltimore Orioles and Matt Wieters avoided arbitration by agreeing to a one-year, $7.7 million contract on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Matt Wieters settles with orioles for $7.7M, plus awards<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeymanCBS\/statuses\/431580656095617024\">February 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The deal is &#8220;just above&#8221; the mid-point of what both sides were discussing last month. Wieters will also have the chance to earn more money through awards.<\/p>\n<p>Wieters, 27, an All Star catcher was arbitration-eligible for the second time this winter. \u00a0Last season he hit. 235\/.287\/.417 with 22 homers and 79 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Orioles and Matt Wieters avoided arbitration by agreeing to a one-year, $7.7 million contract on Thursday. Matt Wieters settles with orioles for $7.7M, plus awards \u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) February 7, 2014 The deal is &#8220;just above&#8221; the mid-point of what both sides were discussing last month. Wieters will also have the chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,632,503,631],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-6257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-baseball-2014","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-matt-wieters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257","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=6257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6257"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}