{"id":11785,"date":"2013-12-20T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/diamondbacks-ziegler-agree-to-extension\/"},"modified":"2013-12-20T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T18:23:00","slug":"diamondbacks-ziegler-agree-to-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/diamondbacks-ziegler-agree-to-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks, Ziegler agree to extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Arizona Diamondbacks announced Friday that the team has come to terms with relief pitcher Brad Ziegler on a two-year contract that includes a club option for the 2016 season.<\/p>\n<p>One of the game&#8217;s most durable bullpen arms, Ziegler is coming off a strong 2013 season in which he saved a career-high 13 games and led the National League with 78 appearances along with posting a 2.22 earned run average. The veteran right-hander has pitched in at least 64 games in each of the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>Ziegler has registered a 2.29 ERA over three seasons with the Diamondbacks since being acquired from Oakland midway through the 2011 campaign, the lowest among all pitchers with 50 or more appearances in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old had been scheduled to become a free agent at the conclusion of the upcoming 2014 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Arizona Diamondbacks announced Friday that the team has come to terms with relief pitcher Brad Ziegler on a two-year contract that includes a club option for the 2016 season. One of the game&#8217;s most durable bullpen arms, Ziegler is coming off a strong 2013 season in which he saved a [&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":[35,34,36],"class_list":["post-11785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-diamondbacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785","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=11785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}