{"id":12689,"date":"2014-01-10T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nationals-avoid-arbitration-with-strasburg\/"},"modified":"2014-01-10T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T20:56:00","slug":"nationals-avoid-arbitration-with-strasburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nationals-avoid-arbitration-with-strasburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals avoid arbitration with Strasburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Nationals averted arbitration with Stephen Strasburg by agreeing to terms with the ace pitcher on an undisclosed contract.<\/p>\n<p>Strasburg is in his first season as an arbitration-eligible player after the four-year, $15.1 million major league deal the 2009 No. 1 overall draft pick signed to begin his professional career expired at the conclusion of the 2013 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The hard-throwing right-hander went just 8-9 this past season, but posted a solid 3.00 earned run average in 30 starts and registered 191 strikeouts in 183 innings. Strasburg earned a spot on the National League All-Star squad the previous year, his first full season since returning from Tommy John surgery, and finished 15-6 with a 3.16 ERA and 197 strikeouts while helping the Nationals to an NL East title.<\/p>\n<p>Strasburg underwent arthroscopic surgery to remove bone chips from his right elbow in October, but is expected to be ready when Washington begins spring training next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Nationals averted arbitration with Stephen Strasburg by agreeing to terms with the ace pitcher on an undisclosed contract. Strasburg is in his first season as an arbitration-eligible player after the four-year, $15.1 million major league deal the 2009 No. 1 overall draft pick signed to begin his professional career [&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":[193,95,192],"class_list":["post-12689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689","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=12689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}