{"id":8566,"date":"2014-07-15T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8566"},"modified":"2014-07-15T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:48:00","slug":"agent-upset-with-astros-handling-of-no-1-pick-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/15\/agent-upset-with-astros-handling-of-no-1-pick-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent upset with Astros handling of No. 1 pick contract"},"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 \/>\nThe Friday deadline is approaching for the Houston Astros and No. 1 overall pick Brady Aiken remains unsigned. Aiken&#8217;s agent Casey Close and the Astros are currently in a standoff regarding a contract.<\/p>\n<p>Aiken and the Astros were set to announce a $6.5 million signing bonus last week but the pitcher remains unsigned after the team expressed concern over his physical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely disappointed that Major League Baseball is allowing the Astros to conduct business in this manner with a complete disregard for the rules governing the draft and the 29 other clubs who have followed those same rules,\u201d said Close, via <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/mlb\/story\/casey-close-calls-foul-on-astros-and-mlb-in-negotiations-with-no-1-draft-pick-brady-aiken-071414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">FOX Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Close also represents fifth-round pick Jacob Nix who has a $1.5 million deal on the table from the Astros.<\/p>\n<p>The agent believes that the Astros are trying to use Aiken&#8217;s medical concern as a way to sign Nix and their 21-st round pick Mac Marshall. The Astros are worried about Aiken&#8217;s elbow ligament.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far Major League Baseball has said that the Astros are doing nothing wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Friday deadline is approaching for the Houston Astros and No. 1 overall pick Brady Aiken remains unsigned. Aiken&#8217;s agent Casey Close and the Astros are currently in a standoff regarding a contract. Aiken and the Astros were set to announce a $6.5 million signing bonus last week but the pitcher remains unsigned after the [&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":{"0":"post-8566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brady-aiken","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-houston-astros","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566","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=8566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8567,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566\/revisions\/8567"}],"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=8566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8566"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}