{"id":9381,"date":"2014-11-14T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9381"},"modified":"2014-11-14T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:44:13","slug":"pirates-sign-free-agnet-a-j-burnett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/14\/pirates-sign-free-agnet-a-j-burnett\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates sign free agnet A.J. Burnett"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5613\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5613\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ajburnett.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ajburnett.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ajburnett-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates and A.J. Burnett agreed on a one-year deal on Friday reuniting the pitcher with a team with whom he pitched for in 2012 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Burnett spent 2014 in Phiadelphia\u00a0posting a 4.59 ERA and a 1.41 WHIP across 34 start.<\/p>\n<p>Burnett became a free agent after he declined a $12.75 miion player option for 2015. Given that his new contract is just for $8.5 million that is a sizeable $4.25 million pay cut for the veteran right hander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates and A.J. Burnett agreed on a one-year deal on Friday reuniting the pitcher with a team with whom he pitched for in 2012 and 2013. Burnett spent 2014 in Phiadelphia\u00a0posting a 4.59 ERA and a 1.41 WHIP across 34 start. Burnett became a free agent after he declined a $12.75 miion player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[619,501,112],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-a-j-burnett","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381","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=9381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9382,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions\/9382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9381"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}