{"id":5872,"date":"2014-01-09T13:36:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T18:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5872"},"modified":"2014-01-09T13:36:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T18:36:48","slug":"jamey-carroll-returns-to-nationals-on-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/09\/jamey-carroll-returns-to-nationals-on-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamey Carroll returns to Nationals on minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5873\" alt=\"jameycarroll\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/jameycarroll.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/jameycarroll.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/jameycarroll-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Nationals have signed utility player Jamey Carroll to a minor league deal. Carroll will compete for a bench spot on the Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons the Nationals were interested in Carroll was his versatility. Carroll is also a solid lifetime pinch-hitter compiling a .339\/.417\/.397 in 146 plate appearances.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source confirms Jamey Carroll headed to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Nationals&amp;src=hash\">#Nationals<\/a>. First reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisCotillo\">@ChrisCotillo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/421346281265836032\">January 9, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In 2013 Carroll split time between Minnesota and Kansas City finishing with a .211\/.267\/.251 line in 73 games. Carroll began his career with Montreal, moving with the team to Washington for the 2005 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Nationals have signed utility player Jamey Carroll to a minor league deal. Carroll will compete for a bench spot on the Nationals. One of the reasons the Nationals were interested in Carroll was his versatility. Carroll is also a solid lifetime pinch-hitter compiling a .339\/.417\/.397 in 146 plate appearances. Source confirms Jamey Carroll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,597,501,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-jamey-carroll","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872","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=5872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5872"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}