{"id":13570,"date":"2014-02-01T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nats-avoid-arbitration-with-fister\/"},"modified":"2014-02-01T17:20:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T17:20:03","slug":"nats-avoid-arbitration-with-fister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nats-avoid-arbitration-with-fister\/","title":{"rendered":"Nats avoid arbitration with Fister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Nationals have avoided arbitration with offseason acquisition Doug Fister, agreeing to terms on a contract for 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals obtained the pitcher in a December trade with the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>Fister, who turns 30 on Tuesday, is part of a stacked starting rotation that includes Stephen Strasburg, Gio Gonzalez and Jordan Zimmermann.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-8 right-hander won a career-high 14 games and compiled a 3.67 earned run average in 32 starts and one relief appearance for the Tigers last season.<\/p>\n<p>Fister&#8217;s career record may be below .500 (44-50), but he boasts a respectable 3.53 ERA in 127 starts and three relief outings for Seattle and Detroit. He was 3-2 with a 2.98 ERA in the playoffs over the last three years for the Tigers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Nationals have avoided arbitration with offseason acquisition Doug Fister, agreeing to terms on a contract for 2014. The Nationals obtained the pitcher in a December trade with the Detroit Tigers. Fister, who turns 30 on Tuesday, is part of a stacked starting rotation that includes Stephen Strasburg, Gio Gonzalez [&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-13570","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\/13570","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=13570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13591,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13570\/revisions\/13591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}