{"id":13559,"date":"2014-01-31T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/angels-avoid-arbitration-with-freese-jepsen\/"},"modified":"2014-01-31T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T17:18:00","slug":"angels-avoid-arbitration-with-freese-jepsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/angels-avoid-arbitration-with-freese-jepsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels avoid arbitration with Freese, Jepsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anaheim, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim avoided arbitration with their final two eligible players on Friday, agreeing to terms with third baseman David Freese and pitcher Kevin Jepsen.<\/p>\n<p>Freese signed a $5.05 million contract and Jepsen inked a $1.46 million deal, according to MLB.com.<\/p>\n<p>Freese, 30, hit a career-low .262 with nine home runs and 60 RBI in 138 games last season with the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals sent Freese and reliever Fernando Salas to Anaheim this past offseason in exchange for center fielder Peter Bourjos and outfield prospect Randal Grichuk.<\/p>\n<p>Freese batted .397 with five homers and 21 RBI in the 2011 postseason en route to NLCS and World Series MVP honors.<\/p>\n<p>Jepsen has spent all six of Major League seasons with the Halos, compiling a 13-16 record and a 4.34 ERA in 241 relief appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anaheim, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim avoided arbitration with their final two eligible players on Friday, agreeing to terms with third baseman David Freese and pitcher Kevin Jepsen. Freese signed a $5.05 million contract and Jepsen inked a $1.46 million deal, according to MLB.com. Freese, 30, hit a career-low .262 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":[88,21,87],"class_list":["post-13559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-angels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559","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=13559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}