{"id":5924,"date":"2014-01-14T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2014-01-14T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:42:14","slug":"padres-reach-deal-with-seth-smith-avoiding-arbitration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/14\/padres-reach-deal-with-seth-smith-avoiding-arbitration\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres reach deal with Seth Smith avoiding arbitration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/sethsmith.jpg\" alt=\"sethsmith\" width=\"594\" height=\"441\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/sethsmith.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/sethsmith-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe San Diego Padres have avoided arbitration with outfielder Seth Smith.<\/p>\n<p>In December the Padres acquired Smith from Oakland. The 31-year-old has proven  himself to be a capable outfield option. He had a bit of a downturn last season with a .253\/.329\/.391 line with eight home runs and 40 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Expect Smith to be a regular fixture in the Padres outfield. Smith will earn $4.5 million in 2014 up from teh $3.675 million he earned a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Padres have avoided arbitration with outfielder Seth Smith. In December the Padres acquired Smith from Oakland. The 31-year-old has proven himself to be a capable outfield option. He had a bit of a downturn last season with a .253\/.329\/.391 line with eight home runs and 40 RBI. Expect Smith to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,355,601],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-san-diego-padres","11":"tag-seth-smith"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924","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=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}