{"id":6445,"date":"2014-02-19T09:18:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6445"},"modified":"2014-02-19T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:18:25","slug":"giants-brandon-belt-avoid-arbitration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/19\/giants-brandon-belt-avoid-arbitration\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants, Brandon Belt avoid arbitration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/brandonbelt.jpg\" alt=\"brandonbelt\" width=\"594\" height=\"413\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/brandonbelt.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/brandonbelt-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe San Francisco Giants and first baseman Brandon Belt have avoided arbitration.<\/p>\n<p>Belt will earn $2.9 million for the 2014 season. When arbitration figures were exchanged the Giants offered $2.05 million while Belt asked for $3.6 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23sfgiants&amp;src=hash\">#sfgiants<\/a>, Belt avoid arbitration with one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Henry Schulman (@hankschulman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hankschulman\/statuses\/436015809597431808\">February 19, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The two sides had an arbitration hearing on Wednesday but were able to find common ground on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Belt appeared in 150 games for the Giants last season slashing a .28\/.360\/.481 line with 17 home runs 76 runs and 67 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Giants and first baseman Brandon Belt have avoided arbitration. Belt will earn $2.9 million for the 2014 season. When arbitration figures were exchanged the Giants offered $2.05 million while Belt asked for $3.6 million. #sfgiants, Belt avoid arbitration with one-year deal. &mdash; Henry Schulman (@hankschulman) February 19, 2014 The two sides had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[650,503,501,139],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-brandon-belt","tag-front","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445","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=6445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6445"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}