{"id":9899,"date":"2015-01-11T10:45:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T15:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9899"},"modified":"2015-01-11T10:45:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T15:45:01","slug":"royals-re-sign-mitch-maier-on-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/01\/11\/royals-re-sign-mitch-maier-on-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals re-sign Mitch Maier on minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/mitchmaier.jpg\" alt=\"mitchmaier\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/mitchmaier.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/mitchmaier-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Royals have re-signed outfielder Mitch Maier on a minor league contract.<\/p>\n<p>Maier, 32, appeared in 25 games for the team at the Double-A level hitting .233\/.303\/.389. A former first round pick, Maier has had little success at the big league level. He last played in the majors during the 2012 season and owns a career .248\/.327\/.344 line.<\/p>\n<p>The deal to re-sign Maier is merely out of depth concerns. He has little chance of cracking the team&#8217;s Opening Day roster and would need an injury or two to see any chance at playing at the big league level this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royals have re-signed outfielder Mitch Maier on a minor league contract. Maier, 32, appeared in 25 games for the team at the Double-A level hitting .233\/.303\/.389. A former first round pick, Maier has had little success at the big league level. He last played in the majors during the 2012 season and owns a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[137,920],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-9899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-mitch-maier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899","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=9899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9901,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899\/revisions\/9901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9899"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}