{"id":9405,"date":"2014-11-17T12:16:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T17:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9405"},"modified":"2014-11-17T12:21:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T17:21:03","slug":"blue-jays-sign-free-agent-catcher-russell-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/17\/blue-jays-sign-free-agent-catcher-russell-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays sign free agent catcher Russell Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9114\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9114\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/russellmartin.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"403\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/russellmartin.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/russellmartin-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFree agent catcher Russell Martin has signed with the Toronto Blue Jays reports MLB.com&#8217;s Peter Gammons.<\/p>\n<p>Gammons noted that Mrtin was getting &#8220;[Brian] McCann money&#8221; on twitter and the actually deal rolls out to a five-year contract worth $82 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlueJays?src=hash\">#BlueJays<\/a> and Russell Martin have agreed to a 5-year, $82 million deal, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeymanCBS\">@JonHeymanCBS<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pgammo\">@pgammo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBONFOX\/status\/534393800802574336\">November 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Martin appeared in 111 games last season with the Pittsburgh Pirates hitting .290\/.402\/.430 with 11 home runs and 67 RBI. He was widely viewed as the best free agent catcher on the market.<\/p>\n<p>McCann signed a deal paying his $17 million a season for five years last offseason. His deal included a club option for $15 million in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The deal for Martin to play for the Blue Jays is a bit of a surprise after weekend reports suggested the Chicago Cubs were his most likely destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent catcher Russell Martin has signed with the Toronto Blue Jays reports MLB.com&#8217;s Peter Gammons. Gammons noted that Mrtin was getting &#8220;[Brian] McCann money&#8221; on twitter and the actually deal rolls out to a five-year contract worth $82 million. The #BlueJays and Russell Martin have agreed to a 5-year, $82 million deal, via @JonHeymanCBS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,107,875],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-russell-martin","11":"tag-torotno-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405","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=9405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9409,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions\/9409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}