{"id":9612,"date":"2014-12-08T11:38:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T16:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9612"},"modified":"2014-12-08T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T16:38:40","slug":"jason-hammel-to-return-to-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/08\/jason-hammel-to-return-to-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Hammel to return to Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/jasonhammel.jpg\" alt=\"jasonhammel\" width=\"594\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9613\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/jasonhammel.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/jasonhammel-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Cubs will bring back pitcher Jason Hammel on a two year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Signed to a one-year deal worth $6 million last season the right hander played well for the Cubs before being sent to the Athletics in a trade that included Jeff Samardzija.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Can confirm reports that Jason Hammel is returning to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cubs?src=hash\">#Cubs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Joelsherman1\/status\/541987793409282048\">December 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hammel&#8217;s deal is done according to Ken Rosenthal with a value being pegged at $18 million over two years with a club option for the 2017 season. <\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old finished last year with a 3.47 ERA and a 1.12 WHIP across 176 1\/3 innings of work. He could be quite a bargain for the Cubs given the asking prices of the other pitchers still on the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs will bring back pitcher Jason Hammel on a two year deal. Signed to a one-year deal worth $6 million last season the right hander played well for the Cubs before being sent to the Athletics in a trade that included Jeff Samardzija. Can confirm reports that Jason Hammel is returning to #Cubs &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,503,890,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-cubs","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-jason-hammel","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9612","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=9612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9614,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9612\/revisions\/9614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9612"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}