{"id":6350,"date":"2014-02-12T22:45:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T03:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2014-02-12T22:47:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T03:47:15","slug":"royals-avoid-arbitration-with-greg-holland-both-seeking-multi-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/12\/royals-avoid-arbitration-with-greg-holland-both-seeking-multi-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals avoid arbitration with Greg Holland, both seeking multi-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6351\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/gregholland.jpg\" alt=\"getty \" width=\"594\" height=\"404\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/gregholland.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/gregholland-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Kansas City Royals and pitcher Greg Holland avoided arbitration on Monday agreeing to a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Holland, 28, and the Royals both appear to be willing to work towards a multi-year extension even as the pitcher will remain arbitration eligible though 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The new deal between Holland and the Royals calls for the pitcher to make $4.675 million according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2014\/02\/12\/4817404\/holland-avoids-arbitration-signs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kansas City Star<\/a>. That number is a little more than the midpoint when arbitration figures were exchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Holland finished the 2013 season with a 1.21 ERA, 0.87 WHIP and 103\/18 K\/BB ratio. He will continue to be the Royals closer after notching 47 saves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals and pitcher Greg Holland avoided arbitration on Monday agreeing to a one-year deal. Holland, 28, and the Royals both appear to be willing to work towards a multi-year extension even as the pitcher will remain arbitration eligible though 2016. The new deal between Holland and the Royals calls for the pitcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,643,137,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-greg-holland","10":"tag-kansas-city-royals","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350","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=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}