{"id":9520,"date":"2014-11-26T14:01:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T19:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9520"},"modified":"2014-11-26T14:03:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T19:03:13","slug":"rays-sign-ernesto-frieri-designate-sean-rodriguez-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/26\/rays-sign-ernesto-frieri-designate-sean-rodriguez-for-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays sign Ernesto Frieri, designate Sean Rodriguez for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/ernestofrieri.jpg\" alt=\"ernestofrieri\" width=\"594\" height=\"427\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9521\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/ernestofrieri.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/ernestofrieri-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Rays have signed free agent releif pitcher Ernesto Frieri to a one-year contract worth a guaranteed $800,000.<\/p>\n<p>Frieri can earn as much as $3.15 million in his new deal with the Rays if he can fulfill all of the incentives. The 29-year-old split time between the Angels and Pirates last season posting  miserable 7.34 ERA in 48 games. <\/p>\n<p>The Rays have had success in the past signing players off the scrap heap and turning them around and given the low cost of Frieri&#8217;s deal there is little risk here. <\/p>\n<p>One player who will not be with the Rays this spring is infielder\/outfielder Sean Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>After years of playing the role of a utility player the Rays were simply not going to tender a contract to Rodriguez who was set for another raise. He is coming off a season in which he hit a mere .211\/.258\/.443 but he still boasts power hitting 12 home runs over 259 plate appearances in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rays have signed free agent releif pitcher Ernesto Frieri to a one-year contract worth a guaranteed $800,000. Frieri can earn as much as $3.15 million in his new deal with the Rays if he can fulfill all of the incentives. The 29-year-old split time between the Angels and Pirates last season posting miserable 7.34 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[880,503,501,179],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-9520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ernesto-frieri","tag-front","tag-mlb","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520","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=9520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9523,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520\/revisions\/9523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9520"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}