{"id":6288,"date":"2014-02-07T19:58:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T00:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2014-02-07T19:58:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T00:58:31","slug":"diamondbacks-land-bronson-arroyo-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/07\/diamondbacks-land-bronson-arroyo-on-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks land Bronson Arroyo on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5272\" alt=\"bronsonarroyo\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/bronsonarroyo.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/bronsonarroyo.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/bronsonarroyo-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Arizona Diamondbacks have landed free agent pitcher Bronson Arroyo on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Arroyo, 36, will be paid $19 million according to ESPN&#8217;s Buster Olney. Things get interesting after that as the Diamondbacks hold an $11 million option for 2016 or can elect to pay a $4.5 million buyout. Basically the Diamondbacks will be determining if Arroyo is worth $6.5 million at his age 39 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Arroyo&#8217;s deal with Arizona: 9.5m in 2014, 9.5m 2015, 4.5m buyout on an $11m option on 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Buster_ESPN\/statuses\/431912098902593536\">February 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of Arroyo in Arizona should have little effect on his numbers persay since he pitched at a similiar park in Great American with the Cincinnati Reds the last few seasons and performed well.<\/p>\n<p>Arroyo brings durability and a good middle of the rotation arm to the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Diamondbacks have landed free agent pitcher Bronson Arroyo on a two-year deal. Arroyo, 36, will be paid $19 million according to ESPN&#8217;s Buster Olney. Things get interesting after that as the Diamondbacks hold an $11 million option for 2016 or can elect to pay a $4.5 million buyout. Basically the Diamondbacks will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[125,521,384,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","9":"tag-bronson-arroyo","10":"tag-cincinnati-reds","11":"tag-front","12":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288","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=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}