{"id":10959,"date":"2013-12-05T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rays-re-sign-oviedo-for-1-5-million\/"},"modified":"2013-12-05T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T18:15:00","slug":"rays-re-sign-oviedo-for-1-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rays-re-sign-oviedo-for-1-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays re-sign Oviedo for $1.5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Rays said Thursday they have re-signed right-handed reliever Juan Carlos Oviedo to a one-year, $1.5 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>The deal could be worth as much as $2.9 million based on performance bonuses, the Rays said.<\/p>\n<p>Oviedo, 31, was recovering from Tommy John surgery on his elbow and didn&#8217;t pitch for the Rays this past season after being signed as a free agent. The Rays declined last month to pick up a $2 million option on Oviedo, making him a free agent again.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly known as Leo Nunez, he hasn&#8217;t appeared in a major league game since Sept. 21, 2011. He admitted using forged documents in order to sign a major league contract and was placed on Major League Baseball&#8217;s restricted list for the remainder of that season.<\/p>\n<p>Oviedo is 18-20 with a 4.34 ERA and 92 saves in 317 career games, including six starts, with the Kansas City Royals and Marlins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Rays said Thursday they have re-signed right-handed reliever Juan Carlos Oviedo to a one-year, $1.5 million contract. The deal could be worth as much as $2.9 million based on performance bonuses, the Rays said. Oviedo, 31, was recovering from Tommy John surgery on his elbow and didn&#8217;t [&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":[191,67,190],"class_list":["post-10959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-rays","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959","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=10959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}