{"id":9876,"date":"2015-01-08T14:34:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T19:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9876"},"modified":"2015-01-08T14:34:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T19:34:12","slug":"orioles-sign-catcher-j-p-arencibia-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/01\/08\/orioles-sign-catcher-j-p-arencibia-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles sign catcher J.P. Arencibia to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/jpArencibia.jpg\" alt=\"jpArencibia\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/jpArencibia.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/jpArencibia-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Baltimore Orioles added some depth at catcher on Thursday signing J.P. Arencibia to a minor league deal.<\/p>\n<p>Arencibia, 29, would serve as a backup to Matt Wieters if he makes the Orioles roster. There is just as good of a chance that he gets released during spring training.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago Arencibia hit 21 home runs as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays, four years ago he hit 23. Last season Arencibia hit just .177\/.239\/.369 in 222 plate appearances last season for the Texas Rangers producing 10 home runs. <\/p>\n<p>Aside from an occasional outburst of power the veteran Arencibia does not have much to offer to a big league club. Perhaps the Orioles are just trying to land wife Kimberly Perry and The Band Perry to one of their Summerfest nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Orioles added some depth at catcher on Thursday signing J.P. Arencibia to a minor league deal. Arencibia, 29, would serve as a backup to Matt Wieters if he makes the Orioles roster. There is just as good of a chance that he gets released during spring training. Two years ago Arencibia hit 21 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876","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=9876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9878,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876\/revisions\/9878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9876"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}