{"id":7266,"date":"2014-04-16T09:28:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T13:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7266"},"modified":"2014-04-16T09:28:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T13:28:35","slug":"royals-sign-casey-coleman-rays-get-doug-mathis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/16\/royals-sign-casey-coleman-rays-get-doug-mathis\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals sign Casey Coleman, Rays get Doug Mathis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7267\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/caseycoleman.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"414\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/caseycoleman.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/caseycoleman-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Kansas City Royals and Tampa Bay Rays have added some minor league depth to their organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City has come to an agreement with Casey Coleman on a minor league deal. The 26-year-old Coleman was recently let go by the Chicago Cubs. Last season he pitched at Triple-A appearing in 41 games and posting a 3.16 ERA. He appeared in 48 games at the big league level from 2010-2012 and had  a 5.76 ERA and a 1.68 WHIP during that time. He will simply be around for depth reasons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doug Mathis signs with Rays<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Doug Mathis will attempt to return to the majors after he signed a minor league deal with Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Mathis, 30, will start off at Triple-A Durham after being released by the Texas Rangers last week. <\/p>\n<p>Mathis has not appeared in a major league game since 2010. He has made 45 career appearances and owns a career 4.84 ERA and a 1.62 WHIP over 87 1\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>Mathis made two appearances at Triple-A Round Rock prior to his release allowing two runs in four innings of work. Last season he split time between the Triple-A teams of Pittsburgh and Miami posting a 4.03 ERA in 26 games, 23 starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals and Tampa Bay Rays have added some minor league depth to their organizations. Kansas City has come to an agreement with Casey Coleman on a minor league deal. The 26-year-old Coleman was recently let go by the Chicago Cubs. Last season he pitched at Triple-A appearing in 41 games and posting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7266","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\/7266","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=7266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7268,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266\/revisions\/7268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7266"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}