{"id":8897,"date":"2014-08-21T13:38:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8897"},"modified":"2014-08-21T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T17:38:11","slug":"astros-could-still-sign-no-1-overall-pick-brady-aiken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/21\/astros-could-still-sign-no-1-overall-pick-brady-aiken\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros could still sign No. 1 overall pick Brady Aiken?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/bradyaiken.jpg\" alt=\"bradyaiken\" width=\"655\" height=\"417\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8899\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/bradyaiken.jpg 655w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/bradyaiken-300x190.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/bradyaiken-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Houston Astors failed to sign the first overall pick in Brady Aiken after selecting the left-hander in June.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns over his elbow in a pre-signing physical caused the Astros to lower his signing bonus and for a deal between the two to fall though.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros also failed to sign fifth-round pick Jacob Nix who has a grievance hearing scheduled. Reports across the web circulated suggesting that the Astros were attempted to lower the bonus paid to Aiken in order to get Nix signed.<\/p>\n<p>Kiley McDaniel of FanGraphs has heard what we have heard, that Aiken and even Nix could still wind up with the Astros as late signings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The expectation from those close to the negotiation is that Brady Aiken will end up making a deal with the Astros around the Nix hearing.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kiley McDaniel (@kileymcd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kileymcd\/statuses\/502470252027207680\">August 21, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Of course any such deals would have to be approved by Major League Baseball. It is unclear if MLB would approve such deals since it would be an unprecedented situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Astors failed to sign the first overall pick in Brady Aiken after selecting the left-hander in June. Concerns over his elbow in a pre-signing physical caused the Astros to lower his signing bonus and for a deal between the two to fall though. The Astros also failed to sign fifth-round pick Jacob Nix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[803,93,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brady-aiken","9":"tag-houston-astros","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897","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=8897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8900,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions\/8900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8897"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}