{"id":9385,"date":"2014-11-14T17:50:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T22:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9385"},"modified":"2014-11-14T17:50:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T22:50:18","slug":"tigers-will-not-re-sign-torii-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/14\/tigers-will-not-re-sign-torii-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers will not re-sign Torii Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9386\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9386\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/toriihunter.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9386\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/toriihunter.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/toriihunter-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nTorii Hunter had a successful two-year stint with the Detroit Tigers but general manager Dave Dombrowski told reporters that the team would not re-sign the outfielder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We probably won&#8217;t re-sign Torii,&#8221; Dombrowski said. &#8220;I called Torii and his representative today and told them that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hunter is hardly the gold glove outfielder he used to be but at the plate remains capable of contributing. In 142 games during the 2014 season he hit .286\/.319\/.446 with 17 home runs and 83 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Teams hotly linked to Hunter have been the Royals and Twins. He could also be an option for the Cubs, Giants, Mariners, Rangers and several others.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers were able to re-sign Joel Hanrahan.<\/p>\n<p>Hanrahan was linked to a minor league deal which guarantees him $1 million for the 2014 season. If the veteran right hander can stay healthy he could earn up to $3.5 million. For now Dombrowski and the Tigers believe Hanrahan can contribute to the team as early as spring training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torii Hunter had a successful two-year stint with the Detroit Tigers but general manager Dave Dombrowski told reporters that the team would not re-sign the outfielder. &#8220;We probably won&#8217;t re-sign Torii,&#8221; Dombrowski said. &#8220;I called Torii and his representative today and told them that.&#8221; Hunter is hardly the gold glove outfielder he used to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[66,503,115,501,495],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-detroit-tigers","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-joel-hanrahan","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-torii-hunter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385","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=9385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9387,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385\/revisions\/9387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9385"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}