{"id":11025,"date":"2013-12-06T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/marlins-finalize-deal-with-furcal\/"},"modified":"2013-12-06T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T17:41:00","slug":"marlins-finalize-deal-with-furcal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/marlins-finalize-deal-with-furcal\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins finalize deal with Furcal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Miami Marlins made their second notable free-agent signing of this offseason on Friday, signing veteran infielder Rafael Furcal to a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Miami Herald reported Thursday that the deal contains a $3 million base salary and includes incentives.<\/p>\n<p>Furcal earned his third career selection to the National League All-Star team while with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2012, but missed all of last season after undergoing Tommy John surgery on his right elbow in March.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old batted .264 with five home runs, 49 RBI and 12 stolen bases for the Cardinals in 2012, and owns a .281 average with 113 homers, 585 RBI and 314 steals over 13 seasons in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Furcal has spent the majority of his career as a shortstop, but the Marlins plan to use him at second base opposite youngster Adeiny Hechavarria in the middle of the infield.<\/p>\n<p>The 2000 NL Rookie of the Year&#8217;s addition comes on the same day Miami officially announced the signing of ex-Boston Red Sox catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia to a three-year contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Miami Marlins made their second notable free-agent signing of this offseason on Friday, signing veteran infielder Rafael Furcal to a one-year contract. The Miami Herald reported Thursday that the deal contains a $3 million base salary and includes incentives. Furcal earned his third career selection to the National League All-Star [&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":[197,196,198],"class_list":["post-11025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-florida","tag-florida-marlins","tag-marlins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11025","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=11025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}