{"id":9423,"date":"2014-11-18T13:54:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T18:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9423"},"modified":"2014-11-18T13:55:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T18:55:21","slug":"white-sox-add-zach-duke-on-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/18\/white-sox-add-zach-duke-on-three-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox add Zach Duke on three-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/zachduke.jpg\" alt=\"zachduke\" width=\"594\" height=\"458\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/zachduke.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/zachduke-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Chicago White Sox have signed relief pitcher Zach Duke to a three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Duke will earn $15 million over the course of the deal after joining the Milwaukee Brewers as a non-roster invitee last offseason.<\/p>\n<p>In 58 2\/3 innings of work last year with the Brewers he posted a 2.45 ERA and 74\/17 K\/BB ratio. He will now try to put up those same numbers for the White Sox.<\/p>\n<p>The contract is a lot to pay for a left hander who has been up and down in the last handful of seasons. The White Sox are currently <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/18\/dodgers-pushing-to-acquire-alexei-ramirez-from-white-sox\/\" title=\"Dodgers pushing to acquire Alexei Ramirez from White Sox\">entertaining offers for shortstop Alexei Ramirez<\/a> with the Dodgers pressing hard currently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago White Sox have signed relief pitcher Zach Duke to a three-year contract. Duke will earn $15 million over the course of the deal after joining the Milwaukee Brewers as a non-roster invitee last offseason. In 58 2\/3 innings of work last year with the Brewers he posted a 2.45 ERA and 74\/17 K\/BB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-9423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423","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=9423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9426,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions\/9426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}