{"id":9805,"date":"2014-12-24T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9805"},"modified":"2014-12-24T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T19:35:10","slug":"braves-sign-a-j-pierzynski-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/24\/braves-sign-a-j-pierzynski-to-one-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves sign A.J. Pierzynski to one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9166\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/ajpierzynski.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9166\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/ajpierzynski.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/ajpierzynski-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Braves have signed A.J. Pierzynski to be the backup for Christian Bethancourt for the 2015 season.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the offseason the Braves have sought a veteran to share time and teach the ropes to the 23-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Pierzynski, 37, hit .251\/.288\/.337 in 362 plate appearances this past season between the Red Sox and Cardinals. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Braves?src=hash\">#Braves<\/a> and A.J. Pierzynski have reached agreement on a 1 yr. deal Deal is pending a physical. Likely won&#39;t be official until early Jan.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlbbowman\/status\/547825882308440065\">December 24, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Like him or not Pierzynski was a leader in the White Sox clubhouse for years. While his play is not what it was three years ago, he should do quite well as the backup in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves should formally annouce the signing sometime in January after Pierzynski passes a physical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Braves have signed A.J. Pierzynski to be the backup for Christian Bethancourt for the 2015 season. Much of the offseason the Braves have sought a veteran to share time and teach the ropes to the 23-year-old. Pierzynski, 37, hit .251\/.288\/.337 in 362 plate appearances this past season between the Red Sox and Cardinals. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[909,28,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-a-j-pierzynsi","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805","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=9805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9806,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions\/9806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9805"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}