{"id":848,"date":"2012-12-14T12:04:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T17:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=848"},"modified":"2012-12-14T12:04:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T17:04:49","slug":"xavier-nady-signs-minor-league-deal-with-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/14\/xavier-nady-signs-minor-league-deal-with-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavier Nady signs minor league deal with Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www1.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Xavier+Nady+Cincinnati+Reds+v+Washington+Nationals+ynUzTLUJZXJl.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Royals have signed Xavier Nady to a minor league deal. Nady appeared in 59 games in the 2012 season, splitting time between Washington and San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Nady batted .184\/.253\/.316 with four home runs in 152 at-bats last season.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Nady was a productive part of a team was the 2008 season. That year he set career highs with a .305 batting average, 25 home runs and 97 RBI. He has not come close to approaching those numbers in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Nady will receive an invitation to spring training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals have signed Xavier Nady to a minor league deal. Nady appeared in 59 games in the 2012 season, splitting time between Washington and San Francisco. Nady batted .184\/.253\/.316 with four home runs in 152 at-bats last season. The last time Nady was a productive part of a team was the 2008 [&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":[137,141],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-xavier-nady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}