{"id":13704,"date":"2014-02-04T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-reach-2-year-deal-with-heyward\/"},"modified":"2014-02-04T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T11:32:00","slug":"braves-reach-2-year-deal-with-heyward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-reach-2-year-deal-with-heyward\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves reach 2-year deal with Heyward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves on Tuesday avoided arbitration with Jason Heyward, agreeing to terms with the outfielder on a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Heyward is coming off a 2013 season that was interrupted by two separate stints on the disabled list. He underwent an appendectomy in late April and suffered a fractured jaw when he was hit by a pitch thrown by the New York Mets&#8217; Jonathon Niese on Aug. 21.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old returned in time to help the Braves clinch the NL East title and finished with a .254 batting average, 14 home runs and 38 RBI over 104 games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jason is an important part of our organization and we&#8217;re glad that we were able to agree on multi-year contract,&#8221; Braves executive vice president and general manager Frank Wren said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Heyward, a former Gold Glove winner, has hit .259 with 73 homers and 234 RBI in 532 career games since debuting with the Braves in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta selected Heyward in the first round (14th overall) of the 2007 draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves on Tuesday avoided arbitration with Jason Heyward, agreeing to terms with the outfielder on a two-year contract. Heyward is coming off a 2013 season that was interrupted by two separate stints on the disabled list. He underwent an appendectomy in late April and suffered a fractured jaw when [&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":[18,17,19],"class_list":["post-13704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-braves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704","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=13704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}