{"id":13558,"date":"2014-01-31T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-cubs-to-sign-p-hammel\/"},"modified":"2014-01-31T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T16:44:00","slug":"report-cubs-to-sign-p-hammel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-cubs-to-sign-p-hammel\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Cubs to sign P Hammel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Free agent pitcher Jason Hammel has agreed to a one-year contract with the Chicago Cubs, FoxSports.com reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to CBSSports.com, the deal is for a base salary of $6 million and includes $1 million in incentives and is pending the completion of a physical.<\/p>\n<p>Hammel is coming off an injury-plagued season with the Baltimore Orioles in which he registered a 7-8 record and a 4.97 earned run average over 26 games, 23 of which were starts. The veteran righty posted a career-best 3.43 ERA while going 8-6 in 20 starts for the Orioles the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>A two-time 10-game winner with Colorado from 2009-10, Hammel owns a 49-59 career mark with a 4.80 ERA over eight major league seasons with Tampa Bay, the Rockies and Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs had been seeking to add an experienced arm to their starting rotation, with the club reportedly heavily involved in the bidding for Masahiro Tanaka before the Japanese star&#8217;s recent signing with the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Free agent pitcher Jason Hammel has agreed to a one-year contract with the Chicago Cubs, FoxSports.com reported Friday. According to CBSSports.com, the deal is for a base salary of $6 million and includes $1 million in incentives and is pending the completion of a physical. Hammel is coming off an injury-plagued season with [&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":[30,207,208],"class_list":["post-13558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558","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=13558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}