{"id":11992,"date":"2020-01-26T20:12:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T01:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11992"},"modified":"2020-01-26T20:12:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T01:12:04","slug":"matt-joyce-joining-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2020\/01\/26\/matt-joyce-joining-marlins\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Joyce joining Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11993\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/mattjoyce-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/mattjoyce-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/mattjoyce-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/mattjoyce-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/mattjoyce-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/mattjoyce-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/mattjoyce-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/mattjoyce.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Brave outfielder Matt Joyce will stay within the National League East as he switches teams to the Marlins for the 2020 season.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce, 35, produced a respectable .295\/.408\/.450 slash line last season in 238 trips to the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Heyman was the first to report a deal between Joyce and the Marlins.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Veteran OF Matt Joyce has deal with Marlins<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/1221579996604616705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Joyce made 34 starts last season for the Braves, 30 in right field and four in left. Used primarily as a bench bat, he appeared as a pinch hitter 85 times.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins would figure to use Joyce as a platoon option in their outfield as his career stats against right handed pitchers is far better than that against lefties.<\/p>\n<p>Jouce could be fighting Garrett Cooper and Harold Ramirez for at-bats in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Brave outfielder Matt Joyce will stay within the National League East as he switches teams to the Marlins for the 2020 season. Joyce, 35, produced a respectable .295\/.408\/.450 slash line last season in 238 trips to the plate. Jon Heyman was the first to report a deal between Joyce and the Marlins. Veteran OF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,503,610,24,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-matt-joyce","11":"tag-miami-marlins","12":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992","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=11992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11994,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions\/11994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11992"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}