{"id":972,"date":"2012-12-23T14:50:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T19:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=972"},"modified":"2012-12-23T14:50:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T19:50:24","slug":"nick-swisher-signs-four-year-deal-with-indians-worth-56-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/23\/nick-swisher-signs-four-year-deal-with-indians-worth-56-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Swisher signs four-year deal with Indians worth $56 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-815\" alt=\"nickswisher\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/nickswisher.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/nickswisher.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/nickswisher-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nick Swisher has signed a four-year deal with the Cleveland Indians. Swisher, 32, will earn $56 million over the course of the contract and a vesting fifth year could push the deal to a total value of $70 million.<\/p>\n<p>Swisher spent the last four seasons with the New York Yankees.\u00a0 A career .256\/.361\/.467 hitter, Swisher has hit 21 or more home runs dating back to 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Texas, Seattle and Boston also had sought to sign Swisher this winter. In Cleveland he will play right field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Swisher has signed a four-year deal with the Cleveland Indians. Swisher, 32, will earn $56 million over the course of the contract and a vesting fifth year could push the deal to a total value of $70 million. Swisher spent the last four seasons with the New York Yankees.\u00a0 A career .256\/.361\/.467 hitter, Swisher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[156,39],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cleveland-indians","9":"tag-nick-swisher"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","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=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}