{"id":9378,"date":"2014-11-13T19:50:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T00:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9378"},"modified":"2014-11-13T19:50:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T00:50:40","slug":"nationals-closing-in-on-deal-with-kevin-frandsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/13\/nationals-closing-in-on-deal-with-kevin-frandsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals closing in on deal with Kevin Frandsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/kevinfrandsen.jpg\" alt=\"kevinfrandsen\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/kevinfrandsen.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/kevinfrandsen-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Washington Nationals are closing in on a new deal with infielder\/outfielder Kevin Frandsen.<\/p>\n<p>Frandsenis arbitration-eligible for the first time this year. He had been ticketed to earn $1.2 million in arbitration and currently it is unclear exactly what his new deal will cost the Nationals. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nationals?src=hash\">#Nationals<\/a> are closing in on a one-year deal with Kevin Frandsen that would avoid arbitration, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesWagnerWP\">@JamesWagnerWP<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MLB?src=hash\">#MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Max Wildstein \u26be\ufe0f (@MaxWildstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxWildstein\/status\/533057404767059968\">November 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He proved to be somewhat useful last season playing the role of a utility man hitting .259\/.299\/.309 in 236 plate appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Frandsen has been around the majors dating back to 2006. He is a career .259\/.313\/.350 hitter with 15 home runs and 133 runs scored in 507 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Nationals are closing in on a new deal with infielder\/outfielder Kevin Frandsen. Frandsenis arbitration-eligible for the first time this year. He had been ticketed to earn $1.2 million in arbitration and currently it is unclear exactly what his new deal will cost the Nationals. #Nationals are closing in on a one-year deal with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[872,501,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-kevin-frandsen","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378","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=9378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9380,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378\/revisions\/9380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9378"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}