{"id":13891,"date":"2014-02-07T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/marlins-sign-inf-baker-to-2-year-deal\/"},"modified":"2014-02-07T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:46:00","slug":"marlins-sign-inf-baker-to-2-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/marlins-sign-inf-baker-to-2-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins sign INF Baker to 2-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Miami Marlins made it official Friday, inking infielder Jeff Baker to a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>No financial terms were disclosed, but previous reports from the Miami Herald had the deal worth $3.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>A nine-year veteran, Baker appeared in 74 games with the Texas Rangers last season, batting .279 with 11 homers and 21 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very excited to add such an experienced player in Jeff Baker,&#8221; Marlins president of baseball operations Michael Hill said. &#8220;Offensively and defensively, we like the options that his versatility will provide (manager) Mike Redmond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Baker is a career .267 hitter with 48 homers and 199 RBI over 617 games with the Rockies, Cubs, Tigers, Braves and Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins designated outfielder Jimmy Paredes for assignment to make room on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Miami Marlins made it official Friday, inking infielder Jeff Baker to a two-year contract. No financial terms were disclosed, but previous reports from the Miami Herald had the deal worth $3.7 million. A nine-year veteran, Baker appeared in 74 games with the Texas Rangers last season, batting .279 with 11 [&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":[197,196,198],"class_list":["post-13891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-florida","tag-florida-marlins","tag-marlins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891","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=13891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}