{"id":992,"date":"2012-12-26T18:37:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T23:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=992"},"modified":"2012-12-26T18:37:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T23:37:55","slug":"matt-diaz-signs-minor-league-deal-with-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/26\/matt-diaz-signs-minor-league-deal-with-yankees\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Diaz signs minor league deal with Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-993\" alt=\"mattdiaz\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/mattdiaz.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/mattdiaz.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/mattdiaz-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The New York Yankees have signed outfielder Matt Diaz to a minor league deal. Diaz spent last season with the Braves but was limited to 51 games.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, Diaz figures to be used against left-handed pitching. Diaz is a career .324\/.364\/.498 hitting against southpaws.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz, 34, has spent parts of 10 seasons in the big leagues. In addition to the Braves, Diaz has also played for the Rays, Pirates and and Royals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees have signed outfielder Matt Diaz to a minor league deal. Diaz spent last season with the Braves but was limited to 51 games. In New York, Diaz figures to be used against left-handed pitching. Diaz is a career .324\/.364\/.498 hitting against southpaws. Diaz, 34, has spent parts of 10 seasons in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[158,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-matt-diaz","9":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","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=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}