{"id":6474,"date":"2014-02-22T12:32:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T17:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6474"},"modified":"2014-02-22T12:34:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T17:34:22","slug":"giants-sign-tyler-colvin-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/22\/giants-sign-tyler-colvin-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants sign Tyler Colvin to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5952\" alt=\"tylercolvin\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/tylercolvin.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/tylercolvin.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/tylercolvin-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/tylercolvin-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco Giants signed outfielder Tyler Colvin to a minor league contract on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Colvin, 28, will also receive an invitation to spring training after spending almost all of the 2013 season at Triple-A Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants plan to have Colvin compete for a reserve role this season. If nothing else he offers the team some depth.\u00a0In parts of five big league seasons Colvin owns a .241\/.289\/.454 line with 47 home runs and 160 RBI in 384 games split between the Chicago Cubs and Colorado Rockies.<\/p>\n<p>Colvin had a major league deal with the Baltimore Orioles fall though in January after the team discovered a back issue during his physical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Giants signed outfielder Tyler Colvin to a minor league contract on Saturday. Colvin, 28, will also receive an invitation to spring training after spending almost all of the 2013 season at Triple-A Colorado Springs. The Giants plan to have Colvin compete for a reserve role this season. If nothing else he offers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474","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=6474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6474"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}