{"id":7130,"date":"2014-04-07T21:34:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T01:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7130"},"modified":"2014-04-07T21:34:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T01:34:21","slug":"marlins-sign-michah-owings-to-a-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/07\/marlins-sign-michah-owings-to-a-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins sign Michah Owings to a minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7131\" alt=\"micahowings\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/micahowings.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/micahowings.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/micahowings-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Miami Marlins have signed free agent Micah Owings to a minor league contract.<\/p>\n<p>Owings, now 31, is attempting to be a pitcher again after spending last season as an outfielder\/first baseman. He was released by Washington mid-way though last season after spending time at Triple-A. Later he signed with Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins will have Owings report to extended spring training. He will eventually join their Triple-A affiliate in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>In parts of six season as a big league pitcher, Owings is a carer 32-33 with a 4.86 ERA and a 1.40 WHIP. He saw time as both a starter and reliever making 68 starts and 70 relief appearances<\/p>\n<p>As a hitter he owns a .283\/.310\/.502 line with nine home runs and 35 RBI in 219 plate appearances..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Marlins have signed free agent Micah Owings to a minor league contract. Owings, now 31, is attempting to be a pitcher again after spending last season as an outfielder\/first baseman. He was released by Washington mid-way though last season after spending time at Triple-A. Later he signed with Milwaukee. The Marlins will have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[24,195,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-miami-marlins","9":"tag-micah-owings","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130","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=7130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7132,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7130\/revisions\/7132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7130"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}