{"id":9695,"date":"2014-12-15T19:32:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T00:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9695"},"modified":"2014-12-15T22:56:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T03:56:39","slug":"astros-bring-back-jed-lowrie-on-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/15\/astros-bring-back-jed-lowrie-on-three-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros bring back Jed Lowrie on three-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/jedlowrie.jpg\" alt=\"jedlowrie\" width=\"594\" height=\"407\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9696\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/jedlowrie.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/jedlowrie-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nAfter years of being a laughing stock in the NL Central and then the AL West, the Houston Astros are showing a penchant for adding players this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>The latest addition by the Astros is infielder Jed Lowrie who signed a three-year deal worth $23 million guaranteed. The deal includes a fourth year option.<\/p>\n<p>With Lowrie now off the market the best options for shortstop needy teams are Asdrubal Cabrera and Jung-Ho Kang from Korea who is set to be posted.<\/p>\n<p>Lowrie previously played for the Astros but was traded to the Athletics prior to the 2013 season for Chris Carter, pitcher Brad Peacock and catcher Max Strassi.<\/p>\n<p>With the teams youth improving and the additions of Lowie and relievers Pat Neshek and Luke Gregerson the Astros suddenly are capable of being watched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of being a laughing stock in the NL Central and then the AL West, the Houston Astros are showing a penchant for adding players this offseason. The latest addition by the Astros is infielder Jed Lowrie who signed a three-year deal worth $23 million guaranteed. The deal includes a fourth year option. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,93,897,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-9695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-houston-astros","tag-jed-lowrie","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695","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=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9705,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions\/9705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}