{"id":8611,"date":"2014-07-21T14:36:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T18:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8611"},"modified":"2014-07-21T14:36:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T18:36:50","slug":"giants-sign-dan-uggla-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/21\/giants-sign-dan-uggla-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants sign Dan Uggla to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7243\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7243\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/danuggla.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/danuggla.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/danuggla-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The San Francisco Giants have signed second baseman Dan Uggla to a minor league contract. Uggla, 34, has been assigned to Triple-A Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Following a brutal first half that saw him hit just .162\/.241\/.231 with 40 strikeouts in 145 plate appearances this season the Atlanta Braves released Uggla.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves remain on the hook for the remaining $19 million on Uggla&#8217;s contract. Uggla can opt out of his deal with the Giants if he does not get called up to the majors by Aug. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Giants have signed second baseman Dan Uggla to a minor league contract. Uggla, 34, has been assigned to Triple-A Fresno. Following a brutal first half that saw him hit just .162\/.241\/.231 with 40 strikeouts in 145 plate appearances this season the Atlanta Braves released Uggla. The Braves remain on the hook for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[440,501,139],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dan-uggla","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-san-francisco-giants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611","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=8611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8612,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions\/8612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8611"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}