{"id":13610,"date":"2014-02-01T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-chen-agree-to-1-year-deal-2015-option\/"},"modified":"2014-02-01T17:40:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T17:40:11","slug":"royals-chen-agree-to-1-year-deal-2015-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-chen-agree-to-1-year-deal-2015-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals, Chen agree to 1-year deal, 2015 option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals agreed to terms on a one-year contract Saturday with pitcher Bruce Chen. The deal also includes a mutual option for 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The itinerant Chen seems to have found a home with the Royals, for whom he has played since 2009. Last season, he made 34 appearances (15 starts), compiling a 9-4 record and a 3.27 earned run average.<\/p>\n<p>Chen has a career mark of 80-76 with a 4.49 ERA in 385 games &#8212; 218 as a starter &#8212; over 15 seasons with the Braves, Phillies, Mets, Expos, Reds, Astros, Red Sox, Orioles, Rangers and Royals.<\/p>\n<p>To clear room for Chen on the 40-man roster, the Royals designated infielder Emilio Bonifacio for assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals agreed to terms on a one-year contract Saturday with pitcher Bruce Chen. The deal also includes a mutual option for 2015. The itinerant Chen seems to have found a home with the Royals, for whom he has played since 2009. Last season, he made 34 appearances [&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":[110,216,217],"class_list":["post-13610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610","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=13610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13611,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610\/revisions\/13611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}