{"id":11096,"date":"2013-12-07T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/houston-inks-qualls-to-2-year-deal\/"},"modified":"2013-12-07T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T18:05:00","slug":"houston-inks-qualls-to-2-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/houston-inks-qualls-to-2-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston inks Qualls to 2-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros signed reliever Chad Qualls to a two-year contract on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal also includes a club option for 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Improving our bullpen is a top priority this offseason,&#8221; said Astros GM Jeff Luhnow. &#8220;Bringing Chad back to Houston is a big step in that direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Qualls finished the 2013 season at 5-2 with a 2.61 ERA in 66 appearances for the Miami Marlins.<\/p>\n<p>A 2000 draft pick of the Astros, Qualls made his MLB debut with the franchise in 2004 and remained there until 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Pitching with eight organizations over his 10-year pro career, Qualls holds a 45-37 record, 3.79 ERA and 51 saves in 663 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros signed reliever Chad Qualls to a two-year contract on Saturday. The deal also includes a club option for 2016. &#8220;Improving our bullpen is a top priority this offseason,&#8221; said Astros GM Jeff Luhnow. &#8220;Bringing Chad back to Houston is a big step in that direction.&#8221; Qualls finished the [&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":[44,43,42],"class_list":["post-11096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-astros","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096","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=11096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}