{"id":8452,"date":"2014-07-07T14:19:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T18:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8452"},"modified":"2014-07-07T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T18:19:18","slug":"brady-aiken-has-elbow-issue-astros-delay-signing-of-no-1-overall-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/07\/brady-aiken-has-elbow-issue-astros-delay-signing-of-no-1-overall-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Brady Aiken has elbow issue, Astros delay signing of No. 1 overall pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/bradyaiken.jpg\" alt=\"bradyaiken\" width=\"610\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8453\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/bradyaiken.jpg 610w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/bradyaiken-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><br \/>\nAn elbow issue has delayed the announcement of a deal between No. 1 overall pick Brady Aiken.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros and Aiken seemed set to make the deal official which would have given him $6.5 million, well below the $7.9 million slot value of the No. 1 pick.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/writer\/jon-heyman\/24610130\/elbow-ligament-issue-for-no-1-pick-aiken-delays-signing-by-astros\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CBSSports.com<\/a> reports that the Astros are trying to get Aiken down to a $5 million deal after expressing concerns with his elbow ligament.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros are said to have discovered the issue at a medical exam done just prior to when they were expected to announce a deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elbow issue has delayed the announcement of a deal between No. 1 overall pick Brady Aiken. The Astros and Aiken seemed set to make the deal official which would have given him $6.5 million, well below the $7.9 million slot value of the No. 1 pick. Now CBSSports.com reports that the Astros are trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[803,503,93,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-brady-aiken","tag-front","tag-houston-astros","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8452","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=8452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8454,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8452\/revisions\/8454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8452"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}