{"id":5816,"date":"2014-01-04T17:14:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T22:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5816"},"modified":"2014-01-04T21:25:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T02:25:49","slug":"padres-add-brandon-wood-and-cody-decker-via-minor-league-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/04\/padres-add-brandon-wood-and-cody-decker-via-minor-league-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres add Brandon Wood via minor league deal, invite Cody Decker to spring training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/brandonwood.jpg\" alt=\"brandonwood\" width=\"628\" height=\"378\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/brandonwood.jpg 628w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/brandonwood-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><br \/>\nThe San Diego Padres have signed Brandon Wood to a minor league deal.<\/p>\n<p>Once a top prospect, Wood has not appeared in the major leagues since spending part of 2011 with Pittsburgh. Now 28-years-old Wood is a longshot to contribute to the Padres this season. Wood produced a .226\/.262\/.329 line with four homers and 30 RBI in 65 games at Triple-A last season.<\/p>\n<p>Decker, 26, hit 19 home runs last season in 359 at-bats between Double-A and Triple-A. He will compete for a bench spot with the Padres but may have to wait until the season begins to see any time at the big league level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Padres have signed Brandon Wood to a minor league deal. Once a top prospect, Wood has not appeared in the major leagues since spending part of 2011 with Pittsburgh. Now 28-years-old Wood is a longshot to contribute to the Padres this season. Wood produced a .226\/.262\/.329 line with four homers and 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[591,592,501,355],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brandon-wood","9":"tag-cody-decker","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-san-diego-padres"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","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=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}