{"id":13831,"date":"2014-02-06T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-sign-rhp-williams-designate-wallace\/"},"modified":"2014-02-06T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T16:48:00","slug":"astros-sign-rhp-williams-designate-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-sign-rhp-williams-designate-wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros sign RHP Williams, designate Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros have agreed to terms on a one-year contract with right-handed pitcher Jerome Williams and designated infielder Brett Wallace for assignment on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of Williams&#8217; deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 32, went 9-10 with a 4.57 ERA in 37 games, including 25 starts, for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim last season.<\/p>\n<p>He began his 2013 season in the Angels bullpen, where he made his first eight appearances, posting a 2.35 ERA, before starting 25 of his last 29 games from May thru the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Williams has pitched in parts of eight seasons with San Francisco (2003-05), the Chicago Cubs (2005-06), Washington (2007) and Los Angeles (2011-13) and has a career record of 42-47 with a 4.35 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace, 27, appeared in 79 games across two stints for the Astros last season, collecting 14 doubles, 13 home runs and 36 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros have agreed to terms on a one-year contract with right-handed pitcher Jerome Williams and designated infielder Brett Wallace for assignment on Thursday. Terms of Williams&#8217; deal were not disclosed. Williams, 32, went 9-10 with a 4.57 ERA in 37 games, including 25 starts, for the Los Angeles Angels [&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":[44,43,42],"class_list":["post-13831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-astros","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13831","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=13831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}