{"id":13161,"date":"2014-01-21T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/phillies-sign-of-abreu-to-minor-league-deal\/"},"modified":"2014-01-21T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:26:00","slug":"phillies-sign-of-abreu-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/phillies-sign-of-abreu-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies sign OF Abreu to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Philadelphia Phillies are bringing back a familiar face.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies on Tuesday signed outfielder Bobby Abreu to a minor league contract with an invitation to major league spring training.<\/p>\n<p>Despite not playing in the major leagues last season, Abreu batted .322 with a .416 on-base percentage, 16 extra-base hits and 28 RBI in 50 games with Leones del Caracas in the Venezuelan Winter League in 2013, including a .395 average with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old outfielder spent parts of nine seasons with Philadelphia from 1998 to 2006, batting .303 with a .416 on-base percentage, 348 doubles, 195 home runs and 814 RBI in 1,353 games. He was traded to the New York Yankees as part of a six-player deal prior to the trade deadline in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>A two-time All-Star (2004-05), Abreu has collected 2,437 career hits, 287 home runs, 1,349 RBI and 399 stolen bases over 17 seasons between the Houston Astros (1996-97), Phillies, Yankees (2006-08), Los Angeles Angels (2009-12) and Los Angeles Dodgers (2012).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Tuesday, the Phillies announced the signing of pitcher Chad Gaudin to a minor league contract with an invite spring training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Philadelphia Phillies are bringing back a familiar face. The Phillies on Tuesday signed outfielder Bobby Abreu to a minor league contract with an invitation to major league spring training. Despite not playing in the major leagues last season, Abreu batted .322 with a .416 on-base percentage, 16 extra-base hits and [&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":[64,194,195],"class_list":["post-13161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13161","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=13161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}