{"id":10758,"date":"2013-12-02T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blue-jays-close-in-on-deal-with-navarro\/"},"modified":"2013-12-02T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T10:56:00","slug":"blue-jays-close-in-on-deal-with-navarro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blue-jays-close-in-on-deal-with-navarro\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays close in on deal with Navarro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays have apparently come to terms with catcher Dioner Navarro.<\/p>\n<p>Fox Sports is reporting that it is a two-year deal worth $8 million.<\/p>\n<p>Navarro, a 2008 American League All-Star with Tampa Bay, appeared in 89 games for the Chicago Cubs last season and hit .300 with 34 RBI and a career-best 13 home runs.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old switch-hitter has also played for the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds, but had his most productive years with the Rays from 2006-10. He helped Tampa Bay to the AL pennant in 2008, leading the club with a .295 batting average in 120 games.<\/p>\n<p>Navarro is a career .251 hitter in 715 big league games with 54 homers and 243 runs batted in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays have apparently come to terms with catcher Dioner Navarro. Fox Sports is reporting that it is a two-year deal worth $8 million. Navarro, a 2008 American League All-Star with Tampa Bay, appeared in 89 games for the Chicago Cubs last season and hit .300 with 34 RBI and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[116,115,114],"class_list":["post-10758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-blue-jays","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}