{"id":9929,"date":"2015-01-14T21:15:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9929"},"modified":"2015-01-14T21:15:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:15:19","slug":"astros-avoid-arbitration-with-chris-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/01\/14\/astros-avoid-arbitration-with-chris-carter\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros avoid arbitration with Chris Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9930\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/chriscarter.jpg\" alt=\"chriscarter\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/chriscarter.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/chriscarter-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Astros and slugger Chris Carter have avoided arbitration agreeing on a one-year deal for 2015 worth $4.175 million.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a season in which he hit .227\/.308\/.491 with 37 home runs and 88 RBI, Carter will attempt to repeat those numbers in 2015 as a central figure in their lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Now 28, Carter&#8217;s only draw back is his strike out totals. He struck out 182 times last season and 212 the season before.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>chris carter settles with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/astros?src=hash\">#astros<\/a> for $4.175M<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeymanCBS\/status\/555539360959840256\">January 15, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>Blue Jays claim Matt West off waivers<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays have claimed former second-round pick Matt West off waivers from the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>West, 26, will look to claim a spot in the Blue Jays bullpen this spring after posting 3.34 ERA across 56 2\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>Making his big league debut last season West allowed three earned runs in four innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays designated Cory Burns for assignment to make space for West.<\/p>\n<p>Burns, 27, spent all of 2014 at the minor league level posting a 4.95 ERA over 63 2\/3 innings of work across two different levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Astros and slugger Chris Carter have avoided arbitration agreeing on a one-year deal for 2015 worth $4.175 million. Coming off a season in which he hit .227\/.308\/.491 with 37 home runs and 88 RBI, Carter will attempt to repeat those numbers in 2015 as a central figure in their lineup. Now 28, Carter&#8217;s only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[924,93,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chris-carter","9":"tag-houston-astros","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929","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=9929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9931,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929\/revisions\/9931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9929"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}