{"id":899,"date":"2012-12-17T19:59:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T00:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=899"},"modified":"2012-12-17T19:59:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T00:59:21","slug":"astros-sign-carlos-pena-to-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/17\/astros-sign-carlos-pena-to-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros sign Carlos Pena to contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Carlos+Pena+Tampa+Bay+Rays+v+Los+Angeles+Angels+pyRzvVirmREl.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Houston Astros do not have a lot of familiar names on their roster though the team did add one on Monday. Carlos Pena has signed a one-year deal with the Astros worth $2.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>One his best days Pena, 34,\u00a0 is a gold glove caliber defender with a power swing, he hit 19 home runs for Tampa Bay last season. The deal with the Astros also calls for $1.4 million in incentives<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was my most attractive option,&#8221; said Pena at the press conference introducing him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Astros do not have a lot of familiar names on their roster though the team did add one on Monday. Carlos Pena has signed a one-year deal with the Astros worth $2.9 million. One his best days Pena, 34,\u00a0 is a gold glove caliber defender with a power swing, he hit 19 home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[147,93],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-carlos-pena","tag-houston-astros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","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=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}