{"id":10550,"date":"2015-12-28T23:18:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T04:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10550"},"modified":"2015-12-28T23:18:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T04:18:45","slug":"henderson-alvarez-deal-with-as-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/12\/28\/henderson-alvarez-deal-with-as-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Henderson Alvarez deal with A&#8217;s announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10551\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/hendersonalvarez.jpg\" alt=\"hendersonalvarez\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/hendersonalvarez.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/hendersonalvarez-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Oakland A&#8217;s announce on Monday the signing of Henderson Alvarez to a one-year deal worth $4.25 million.<\/p>\n<p>While the signing of Alvarez comes with some health risks as he is working his way back from shoulder\u00a0surgery, the fact that the Miami Marlins opted to non-tender him earlier this winter came as a mild surprise. Alvarez was said to have garnered heavy interest on the free agent market.<\/p>\n<p>That the A&#8217;s were able to sign the 25-year-old to a deal at just $4.25 million makes him a nice gamble. The A&#8217;s will have control of him though the 2017 season while Alvarez could earn another $1.6 million through incentives for games started.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Athletics?src=hash\">#Athletics<\/a> agree to terms with Henderson Alvarez on a one-year contract; designate Arnold Leon for assignment <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UpgBqZkyOW\">pic.twitter.com\/UpgBqZkyOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oakland Athletics (@Athletics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Athletics\/status\/681613949293334528\">December 28, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alvarez owns a career 3.80 ERA, 1.29 WHIP and a 296\/129 K\/BB ratio in 563 major league innings but was limited to just four games last season. There is belief that he will be able to throw off a mound come March and be ready to appear in regular season games by May.<\/p>\n<p>In order to make room for Alvarez on the 40-man roster the A&#8217;s had to designate Arnold Leon for assignment. In 19 relief appearances last season the right hander compiled a 4.39 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pb\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland A&#8217;s announce on Monday the signing of Henderson Alvarez to a one-year deal worth $4.25 million. While the signing of Alvarez comes with some health risks as he is working his way back from shoulder\u00a0surgery, the fact that the Miami Marlins opted to non-tender him earlier this winter came as a mild surprise. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,978,24,501,272],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-henderson-alvarez","10":"tag-miami-marlins","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-oakland-athletics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550","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=10550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10552,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions\/10552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10550"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}