{"id":12987,"date":"2014-01-17T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nationals-give-desmond-two-year-deal\/"},"modified":"2014-01-17T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:58:00","slug":"nationals-give-desmond-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nationals-give-desmond-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals give Desmond two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Nationals have agreed to a two-year contract with shortstop Ian Desmond and also agreed to terms with catcher Wilson Ramos.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms were not disclosed, but the deals avoided salary arbitration.<\/p>\n<p>Desmond played in a career-high 158 games last season and slugged 20 homers while driving in a career-best 80 runs with a .280 average. He hit 25 home runs in 2012 with a .292 average and has been selected as the NL&#8217;s Silver Slugger winner at shortstop each of the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>Also chosen as an All-Star in 2012, Desmond has a career average of .273 with 67 homers and 279 RBI in 617 games since joining the Nationals in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Ramos hit .272 with 16 homers and 59 RBI in just 78 games last season, missing most of the first half of the campaign with a strained left hamstring. He played only 25 games in 2012 because of a knee injury after a 2011 season that featured 15 homers, 52 RBI and a .267 average in 113 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Nats also avoided arbitration with lefty Jerry Blevins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Nationals have agreed to a two-year contract with shortstop Ian Desmond and also agreed to terms with catcher Wilson Ramos. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the deals avoided salary arbitration. Desmond played in a career-high 158 games last season and slugged 20 homers while driving in a career-best [&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-12987","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\/12987","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=12987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}