{"id":11451,"date":"2013-12-13T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rockies-sign-morneau\/"},"modified":"2013-12-13T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T17:24:00","slug":"rockies-sign-morneau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rockies-sign-morneau\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies sign Morneau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver, CO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Colorado Rockies have signed first baseman Justin Morneau to a two-year contract with a mutual option for 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Post indicated last week that the deal will pay the former AL MVP just under $13 million.<\/p>\n<p>Morneau, who spent the first 10 1\/2 seasons of his career with the Minnesota Twins before he was dealt to the Pittsburgh Pirates late last season, will have the tall task of replacing long-time Rockies first baseman Todd Helton.<\/p>\n<p>Over 11 seasons in the majors, the Canadian slugger has batted .277 with 221 homers and 863 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver, CO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Colorado Rockies have signed first baseman Justin Morneau to a two-year contract with a mutual option for 2016. The Denver Post indicated last week that the deal will pay the former AL MVP just under $13 million. Morneau, who spent the first 10 1\/2 seasons of his career with 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":[210,209,211],"class_list":["post-11451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-rockies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11451","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=11451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}