{"id":6348,"date":"2014-02-12T16:59:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T21:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6348"},"modified":"2014-02-12T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T21:59:23","slug":"phillies-sign-a-j-burnett-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/12\/phillies-sign-a-j-burnett-to-one-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies sign A.J. Burnett to one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5613\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5613\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ajburnett.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ajburnett.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ajburnett-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Philadelphia Phillies and pitcher A.J. Burnett have agreed on a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Burnett recently announced that he would return for the 2014 season and will do so with the Phillies joining a rotation that includes Cole Hamels, Cliff Lee, and Kyle Kendrick.<\/p>\n<p>Cuban pitcher Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez is also expected to fill a rotation spot after inking a three-year deal worth $12 million earlier his offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Burnett was said to be considering offers from the Baltimore Orioles, Washington Nationals and the Pittsburgh Pirates with whom he spent the 2013 season making 30 starts and finishing with a 10-11 record and a 3.30 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Pirates were under the assumption that Burnett would return to them or retire they did not make a qualifying offer to him, which means he will not cost the Phillies a draft pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Phillies and pitcher A.J. Burnett have agreed on a one-year contract. Burnett recently announced that he would return for the 2014 season and will do so with the Phillies joining a rotation that includes Cole Hamels, Cliff Lee, and Kyle Kendrick. Cuban pitcher Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez is also expected to fill a rotation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[367,503,501,109],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aj-burnett","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-philadelphia-phillies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348","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=6348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}