{"id":11438,"date":"2013-12-13T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mariners-sign-hart\/"},"modified":"2013-12-13T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T15:35:00","slug":"mariners-sign-hart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mariners-sign-hart\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners sign Hart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners signed outfielder Corey Hart to a contract for the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>The hope for the Mariners is that Hart will bat behind recently signed second baseman Robinson Cano, who signed a 10-year, $240 million pact last week.<\/p>\n<p>Hart missed all of the 2013 campaign for the Milwaukee Brewers with a right knee injury. However, he hit .270\/.334\/.507 with 35 doubles, 30 homers and 83 RBI over 149 games in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Although Hart has spent the majority of his career in the outfield, he did play 103 games at first base two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Kentucky native had spent his entire career in Milwaukee after being selected by the Brewers in the 11th round of the 2000 amateur draft.<\/p>\n<p>Over 945 games, the two-time All-Star has batted .276 with 154 homers, 508 RBI and 83 stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>To make room on the 40-man roster, the Mariners designated outfielder Travis Witherspoon for assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners signed outfielder Corey Hart to a contract for the 2014 season. The hope for the Mariners is that Hart will bat behind recently signed second baseman Robinson Cano, who signed a 10-year, $240 million pact last week. Hart missed all of the 2013 campaign for the Milwaukee Brewers [&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":[213,131,212],"class_list":["post-11438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mariners","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438","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=11438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}