{"id":13839,"date":"2014-02-06T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mariners-ink-closer-rodney-to-2-year-deal\/"},"modified":"2014-02-06T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T18:30:00","slug":"mariners-ink-closer-rodney-to-2-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mariners-ink-closer-rodney-to-2-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners ink closer Rodney to 2-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners continued their busy offseason on Thursday, reportedly signing closer Fernando Rodney to a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple media outlets, including the News Tribune, the deal is worth $14 million, includes performance bonuses, and is pending a physical.<\/p>\n<p>Rodney spent the last two seasons in Tampa Bay as the Rays&#8217; primary closer, racking up 85 saves with a minuscule 1.91 earned run average over 144 relief appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old right-hander was named an All-Star in 2012, when he recorded 48 saves with a remarkable 0.60 ERA, setting a single-season record for the lowest ERA by a reliever in MLB history.<\/p>\n<p>Over 11 seasons in the majors, Rodney owns a career 3.70 ERA with a 29-44 record and 172 saves in 344 games, all in relief, for the Tigers, Angels and Rays since breaking into the league in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners continued their busy offseason on Thursday, reportedly signing closer Fernando Rodney to a two-year contract. According to multiple media outlets, including the News Tribune, the deal is worth $14 million, includes performance bonuses, and is pending a physical. Rodney spent the last two seasons in Tampa Bay as [&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":[213,131,212],"class_list":["post-13839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mariners","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839","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=13839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}