{"id":14179,"date":"2014-02-12T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-sign-valverde-to-minor-league-deal\/"},"modified":"2014-02-12T10:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T10:39:00","slug":"mets-sign-valverde-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-sign-valverde-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets sign Valverde to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Mets signed pitcher Jose Valverde to a minor league contract with an invite to major league spring training on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Valverde spent last season with the Detroit Tigers, appearing in 20 games after signing a minor league contract on April 4. He went 0-1 with a 5.59 ERA and nine saves before being released on Aug. 7.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old right-hander is a three-time All-Star (2007, 2010, 2011) who has recorded 286 saves during his 11-year career with the Arizona Diamondbacks, Houston Astros and Detroit Tigers. He has a career record of 26-32 with a 3.19 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, he converted 49 consecutive save opportunities, becoming only the third pitcher in major league history to be perfect in all his save opportunities during a single season while posting 40 or more saves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Mets signed pitcher Jose Valverde to a minor league contract with an invite to major league spring training on Wednesday. Valverde spent last season with the Detroit Tigers, appearing in 20 games after signing a minor league contract on April 4. He went 0-1 with a 5.59 ERA [&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":[187,59,186],"class_list":["post-14179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179","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=14179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}