{"id":9794,"date":"2014-12-23T13:55:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T18:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9794"},"modified":"2014-12-23T13:55:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T18:55:14","slug":"cardinals-avoid-arbitration-with-jordan-walden-agreeing-to-a-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/23\/cardinals-avoid-arbitration-with-jordan-walden-agreeing-to-a-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals avoid arbitration with Jordan Walden agreeing to a two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/jordanwalden.jpg\" alt=\"jordanwalden\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/jordanwalden.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/jordanwalden-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Cardinals have avoided arbitration with relief pitcher Jordan Walden.<\/p>\n<p>Walden, 27, and the Cardinals agreed to a two-year deal worth $6.6 million. With the deal the Cardinals have the right handed reliever locked up for two years and have a club option worth $5.25 million for the 2017 season.<\/p>\n<p>Acquired the in the trade that brought outfielder Jason Heyward to St. Louis, Walden is expected to move into a setup role with Carlos Martinez shifting to the rotation this season.<\/p>\n<p>Walden appeared in 58 games for the Braves this past year compiling a 2.88 ERA and a 1.20 WHIP while recording three saves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cardinals have avoided arbitration with relief pitcher Jordan Walden. Walden, 27, and the Cardinals agreed to a two-year deal worth $6.6 million. With the deal the Cardinals have the right handed reliever locked up for two years and have a club option worth $5.25 million for the 2017 season. Acquired the in the trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-9794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794","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=9794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9795,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions\/9795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9794"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}