{"id":7779,"date":"2014-05-16T22:40:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T02:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7779"},"modified":"2014-05-16T22:40:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T02:40:26","slug":"marlins-sign-miguel-tejada-pending-physical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/16\/marlins-sign-miguel-tejada-pending-physical\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins sign Miguel Tejada, pending physical"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7780\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7780\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7780\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/migueltejada.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/migueltejada.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/migueltejada-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Miami Marlins have reportedly signed infielder Miguel Tejada to a minor-league deal.<\/p>\n<p>Tejada, 39, spent last season in a bit role with the Kansas City Royals hitting.288 with three homers and a .695 OPS in 167 trips to the plate before landing on the disabled list with a calf injury in August. Shortly thereafter he was hit with a 105-game suspension for repeated amphetamine use, of which he still has has 64 games left.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Marlins&amp;src=hash\">#Marlins<\/a> minor league deal with Miguel Tejada contingent on him passing a physical.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Juan C. Rodriguez (@JCRMarlinsbeat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JCRMarlinsbeat\/statuses\/467438886827069440\">May 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Back before all the failed drug tests, Tejada was a AL MVP and All-Star. He is now one failed test away from a life-time ban.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to make sense of this deal? Don&#8217;t waste your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Marlins have reportedly signed infielder Miguel Tejada to a minor-league deal. Tejada, 39, spent last season in a bit role with the Kansas City Royals hitting.288 with three homers and a .695 OPS in 167 trips to the plate before landing on the disabled list with a calf injury in August. Shortly thereafter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[24,161,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-7779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miguel-tejada","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779","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=7779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7781,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions\/7781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7779"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}