{"id":11604,"date":"2013-12-17T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-albers-agree-on-1-year-deal\/"},"modified":"2013-12-17T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:29:00","slug":"astros-albers-agree-on-1-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-albers-agree-on-1-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros, Albers agree on 1-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros and veteran relief pitcher Matt Albers agreed to a one-year contract on Tuesday. The deal includes a club option for the 2015 season.<\/p>\n<p>Albers spent last season in Cleveland, where he went 3-1 with a 3.14 earned run average in 56 relief appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Over eight seasons with Houston, Baltimore, Boston, Arizona and Cleveland, the 30-year-old right-hander has compiled a 25-31 record with a 4.49 ERA in 356 games, including 23 starts.<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of Albers, Houston&#8217;s roster is now at 39.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros and veteran relief pitcher Matt Albers agreed to a one-year contract on Tuesday. The deal includes a club option for the 2015 season. Albers spent last season in Cleveland, where he went 3-1 with a 3.14 earned run average in 56 relief appearances. Over eight seasons with Houston, [&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-11604","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\/11604","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=11604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}