{"id":5411,"date":"2013-12-03T13:06:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5411"},"modified":"2013-12-03T13:10:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T18:10:25","slug":"joe-nathan-signs-two-year-deal-with-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/03\/joe-nathan-signs-two-year-deal-with-tigers\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Nathan signs two-year deal with Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/joenathan.jpg\" alt=\"joenathan\" width=\"594\" height=\"414\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/joenathan.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/joenathan-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Detroit Tigers have solved their ninth inning problem signing Joe Nathan to a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan, 39, spent the last two seasons with the Texas Rangers picking up 80 saves with a 2.09 ERA and a 0.98 WHIP in 133 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers had previously spoken to Brian Wilson about a contract but Nathan is as sure of a bet as there is available. Wilson may now opt to <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/03\/dodgers-close-to-re-signing-brian-wilson\/\" title=\"Dodgers close to re-signing Brian Wilson\">re-sign as a setup man<\/a> for the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Nathan and Tigers will have a 2-year agreement. tigers finally get their closer.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeymanCBS\/statuses\/407914562063564800\">December 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With the Tigers as talented as ever there should be no shortage of save chances for Nathan in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Tigers have solved their ninth inning problem signing Joe Nathan to a two-year deal. Nathan, 39, spent the last two seasons with the Texas Rangers picking up 80 saves with a 2.09 ERA and a 0.98 WHIP in 133 games. The Tigers had previously spoken to Brian Wilson about a contract but Nathan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[66,503,425,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-detroit-tigers","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-joe-nathan","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411","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=5411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5411"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}