{"id":9714,"date":"2014-12-16T10:47:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9714"},"modified":"2014-12-16T10:55:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T15:55:57","slug":"padres-land-brandon-morrow-on-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/16\/padres-land-brandon-morrow-on-one-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres land Brandon Morrow on one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/brandonmorrow.jpg\" alt=\"brandonmorrow\" width=\"594\" height=\"483\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9715\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/brandonmorrow.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/brandonmorrow-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Padres have signed right handed pitcher Brandon Morrow to a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Morrow, 30, has pitched just 87 2\/3 innings over the past two seasons missing a good chunk of last season with a finger tendon injury.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Brock of MLB reports that Morrow will earn $2.5 million plus incentives next season. Restarting his career in Petco Park should immediately rebuild his value. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Morrow&#39;s deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Padres?src=hash\">#Padres<\/a>: $2.5 million guarantee + chance to earn $5 million in bonuses for starting and $1 million for relieving.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Corey Brock (@FollowThePadres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FollowThePadres\/status\/544875372576538624\">December 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While he has started and pitched out of the bullpen, Morrow should be given an ample chance to land in the Padres rotation. <\/p>\n<p>In his career he has appeared in 231 games &#8211; making 108 starts &#8211; while posting a 4.30 ERA and a 1.36 WHIP. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Padres have signed right handed pitcher Brandon Morrow to a one-year contract. Morrow, 30, has pitched just 87 2\/3 innings over the past two seasons missing a good chunk of last season with a finger tendon injury. Corey Brock of MLB reports that Morrow will earn $2.5 million plus incentives next season. Restarting his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[415,501,355,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"tag-brandon-morrow","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-san-diego-padres","11":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714","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=9714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9718,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions\/9718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9714"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}