{"id":11608,"date":"2013-12-17T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-reportedly-reach-deal-with-veras\/"},"modified":"2013-12-17T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T19:01:00","slug":"cubs-reportedly-reach-deal-with-veras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-reportedly-reach-deal-with-veras\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs reportedly reach deal with Veras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Cubs obtained their possible closer for the upcoming season on Tuesday, with the club agreeing to a one-year contract with Jose Veras according to a report from ESPN Deportes.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told ESPN Deportes that Veras will earn $4 million next season, with the deal also including a $5.5 million option for 2015 along with incentives.<\/p>\n<p>Veras recorded a career-high 21 saves in 2013, 19 of which came with the Houston Astros. The veteran righty was traded to the Detroit Tigers in late July and compiled a 3.02 earned run average over 67 appearances between the two teams.<\/p>\n<p>Over eight major league campaigns, Veras owns a 19-22 record with a 3.84 ERA in 394 games while striking out 388 batters in 377 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Veras is expected to compete with holdover Pedro Strop for the closer&#8217;s job in Chicago. Kevin Gregg, who saved 33 games in that role for the Cubs last season, is a free agent that the team has shown no inclination of re-signing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Cubs obtained their possible closer for the upcoming season on Tuesday, with the club agreeing to a one-year contract with Jose Veras according to a report from ESPN Deportes. Sources told ESPN Deportes that Veras will earn $4 million next season, with the deal also including a $5.5 million option for [&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":[30,207,208],"class_list":["post-11608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608","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=11608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}