{"id":821,"date":"2012-12-13T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T19:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=821"},"modified":"2012-12-13T16:30:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T21:30:30","slug":"angels-reach-five-year-deal-with-josh-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/13\/angels-reach-five-year-deal-with-josh-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels reach five-year deal with Josh Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-825\" alt=\"joshhamilton\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/joshhamilton.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/joshhamilton.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/joshhamilton-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Josh Hamilton has reached a deal which will keep him in the American League West, though the deal is not with the Texas Rangers. Hamilton has signed a contract with the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels had been quiet during the off-season though they recently added Joe Blanton to the back end of their rotation. Hamilton&#8217;s deal with the Angels is for five years and $125 million <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jonmorosi\/status\/279304799969746944\">according<\/a> to Jon Morosi.<\/p>\n<p>As a member of the Texas Rangers, Hamilton batted .285\/.354\/.577 with 43 home runs and 128 RBI in 148 games. Health is a bit of a concern going forward with Hamilton but the overall talent and ability may have been too much for the Angels to pass up.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers were expected to be given every opportunity to match any offer given to Hamilton. In recent days reports suggested that the club had intensified their efforts to re-sign Hamilton after losing out on Zack Greinke.<\/p>\n<p>Texas also watched catcher Mike Napoli agree to a deal with Boston, though that deal has not been announced. The Rangers also opted to trade Michael Young to Philadelphia last weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Hamilton has reached a deal which will keep him in the American League West, though the deal is not with the Texas Rangers. Hamilton has signed a contract with the Los Angeles Angels. The Angels had been quiet during the off-season though they recently added Joe Blanton to the back end of their rotation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","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=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}