{"id":6623,"date":"2014-03-05T11:39:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T16:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6623"},"modified":"2014-03-05T11:39:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T16:39:43","slug":"rangers-reach-deal-with-pitcher-joe-saunders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/05\/rangers-reach-deal-with-pitcher-joe-saunders\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers reach deal with pitcher Joe Saunders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6624\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6624\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/joesaunders.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"445\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6624\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/joesaunders.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/joesaunders-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Texas Rangers have signed left handed pitcher Joe Saunders to a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Saunders, 32, will be guaranteed $500,000 under the terms of his new contract and can make $1.5 million plus incentives if he makes the team.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers are bringing in Saunders to compete against Alexi Ogando, Colby Lewis, Tommy Hanson and Nick Tepesch for the final two spots in their starting rotation. By mid-season the Rangers are expecting to have Derek Holland back.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Joe Saunders gets 500K. Goes to 1.5M plus bonuses if he makkes team.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeymanCBS\/statuses\/441241465310552064\">March 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Saunders made 32 starts last season for the Seattle Mariners finishing with a 11-16 record, 5.26 ERA and a  1.60 WHIP. If nothing else Saunders gives the Rangers additional depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers have signed left handed pitcher Joe Saunders to a one-year contract. Saunders, 32, will be guaranteed $500,000 under the terms of his new contract and can make $1.5 million plus incentives if he makes the team. The Rangers are bringing in Saunders to compete against Alexi Ogando, Colby Lewis, Tommy Hanson and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[22,501,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-joe-saunders","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623","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=6623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6625,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions\/6625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6623"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}