{"id":851,"date":"2012-12-14T13:10:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T18:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=851"},"modified":"2012-12-14T13:10:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T18:10:21","slug":"albert-pujols-was-shocked-that-angels-signed-josh-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/14\/albert-pujols-was-shocked-that-angels-signed-josh-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Pujols was &#8220;shocked&#8221; that Angels signed Josh Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-852\" alt=\"albertpujols\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/albertpujols.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/albertpujols.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/albertpujols-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Count Albert Pujols among those who were surprised by the Los Angeles Angels&#8217; signing of Josh Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked, I won\u2019t lie to you,\u201d Pujols told USA Today\u2019s Bob Nightengale.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton signed a five year deal with the Angels worth $125 million. It was just a year ago that Pujols signed a massive deal for ten-years and $240 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a scary lineup,\u201d Pujols said speaking of an Angels lineup that also features MVP runner-up Mike Trout.<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of Hamilton, the Angels have become the preseason favorite in the AL West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Count Albert Pujols among those who were surprised by the Los Angeles Angels&#8217; signing of Josh Hamilton. \u201cI was shocked, I won\u2019t lie to you,\u201d Pujols told USA Today\u2019s Bob Nightengale. Hamilton signed a five year deal with the Angels worth $125 million. It was just a year ago that Pujols signed a massive deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[142,114],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-albert-pujols","9":"tag-los-angeles-angels"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","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=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}