{"id":12893,"date":"2014-01-15T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mariners-avoid-arbitration-with-of-saunders\/"},"modified":"2014-01-15T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T17:23:00","slug":"mariners-avoid-arbitration-with-of-saunders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mariners-avoid-arbitration-with-of-saunders\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners avoid arbitration with OF Saunders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners announced Wednesday that the team has agreed to terms with outfielder Michael Saunders on a contract for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>Saunders, a first-time arbitration-eligible player, started 109 games for the Mariners last season and batted .236 with 12 home runs, 46 RBI and 13 stolen bases. The 27-year-old established career bests of 19 homers, 57 RBI and 21 steals while appearing 139 games the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The native Canadian owns a .224 career average with 43 homers and 148 RBI over parts of five major league seasons, all with Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle now has just two players slated for arbitration that have yet to be signed, first baseman Justin Smoak and offseason acquisition Logan Morrison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners announced Wednesday that the team has agreed to terms with outfielder Michael Saunders on a contract for the upcoming season. Saunders, a first-time arbitration-eligible player, started 109 games for the Mariners last season and batted .236 with 12 home runs, 46 RBI and 13 stolen bases. The 27-year-old [&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":[213,131,212],"class_list":["post-12893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mariners","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893","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=12893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}