{"id":12222,"date":"2013-12-31T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-sign-crain\/"},"modified":"2013-12-31T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T15:20:00","slug":"astros-sign-crain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-sign-crain\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros sign Crain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros have agreed to terms with pitcher Jesse Crain on a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox traded Crain to Tampa Bay in late July, but he did not appear in a game for the Rays. The right-hander went 2-3 with a 0.74 ERA in 38 relief appearances prior to the trade.<\/p>\n<p>Crain, an American League All-Star in 2013, dealt with a shoulder injury late last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jesse Crain is a proven, quality reliever that will help us win games in 2014,&#8221; Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow said. &#8220;We targeted him early in the offseason and are excited to bring him on board.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crain has posted a 45-30 record with a 3.05 ERA in 532 career appearances (all in relief) with the Twins (2004-10) and White Sox (2011-13). His 45 wins in relief since his MLB debut in 2004 are tied with Chad Qualls for tops in the big leagues in that span.<\/p>\n<p>Crain joins Matt Albers and Qualls at the back of a much improved Astros bullpen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros have agreed to terms with pitcher Jesse Crain on a one-year contract. The White Sox traded Crain to Tampa Bay in late July, but he did not appear in a game for the Rays. The right-hander went 2-3 with a 0.74 ERA in 38 relief appearances prior to [&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-12222","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\/12222","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=12222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}