{"id":10638,"date":"2016-01-21T13:36:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10638"},"modified":"2016-01-21T13:36:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T18:36:21","slug":"rays-add-steve-pearce-on-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2016\/01\/21\/rays-add-steve-pearce-on-one-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays add Steve Pearce on one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/stevepearce.jpg\" alt=\"stevepearce\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/stevepearce.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/stevepearce-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Rays have signed Steve Pearce to a one-year contract for the 2016 season.<\/p>\n<p>Pearce, 32, had been seeking a multi-year deal as a free agent but could find no suitors. Instead he signs on with the Rays &#8211; a team which should use his versatility. Last year he saw time at first base and both corner outfield spots. <\/p>\n<p>After a strong 2014 season, Pearce struggled last year hitting just .218\/.289\/.422 with the Orioles in 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rays?src=hash\">#Rays<\/a> are close to signing Steve Pearce to a 1-year deal, just pending a physical. Would get DH at-bats, play 1B vs. LHP, some OF<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBTimes_Rays\/status\/690237688637693952\">January 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rays have signed Steve Pearce to a one-year contract for the 2016 season. Pearce, 32, had been seeking a multi-year deal as a free agent but could find no suitors. Instead he signs on with the Rays &#8211; a team which should use his versatility. Last year he saw time at first base and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,501,463,179],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-steve-pearce","11":"tag-tampa-bay-rays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638","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=10638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10640,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638\/revisions\/10640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10638"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}