{"id":10020,"date":"2015-01-30T23:21:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T04:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10020"},"modified":"2015-01-30T23:21:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T04:21:27","slug":"red-sox-sign-alexi-ogando-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/01\/30\/red-sox-sign-alexi-ogando-to-one-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox sign Alexi Ogando to one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/alexiogando.jpg\" alt=\"alexiogando\" width=\"594\" height=\"409\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/alexiogando.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/alexiogando-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Red Sox will take a flier on pitcher Alexi Ogando.<\/p>\n<p>Ogando, 31, pitched just 25 innings last season for the Rangers finishing with a 6.84 ERA and a 1.92 WHIP. The right hander had been holding out for a guaranteed contract and gets one from the Red Sox worth $1.5 million for the 2015 season. He can earn an additional $1.5 million in incentives.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox are could be targeting Ogando to fill out one of the spots in their bullpen. For his career Ogando owns a 3.36 ERA and a 1.19 WHIP while serving as both a starter and a reliever.<\/p>\n<p>To make room for Ogando on their roster the Red Sox designated Drake Britton for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Britton appeared in seven games for the Red Sox last season tossing 6 2\/3 scoreless innings. He should find plenty of oppurtunities to pitch in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sox will take a flier on pitcher Alexi Ogando. Ogando, 31, pitched just 25 innings last season for the Rangers finishing with a 6.84 ERA and a 1.92 WHIP. The right hander had been holding out for a guaranteed contract and gets one from the Red Sox worth $1.5 million for the 2015 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[881,27,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alexi-ogando","9":"tag-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10021,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions\/10021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10020"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}