{"id":14299,"date":"2014-02-13T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-add-arms-in-mcdonald-hammel\/"},"modified":"2014-02-13T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T16:00:00","slug":"cubs-add-arms-in-mcdonald-hammel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-add-arms-in-mcdonald-hammel\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs add arms in McDonald, Hammel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mesa, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Cubs agreed to terms with pitchers James McDonald and Jason Hammel on one-year contracts Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald joins the Cubs after spending the past three-plus seasons with Pittsburgh and is coming off an injury-plagued 2013. He made only six starts for the Pirates last year, none after April 30, due to right shoulder discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old won a career-high 12 games in 2012 and has compiled a 32-30 record with a 4.20 earned run average in 131 major league appearances (82 starts) with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>Hammel went 7-8 with a 4.97 ERA in 23 starts and three relief outings last season, his second with Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>A two-time 10-game winner with Colorado, the 31-year-old right-hander has made at least 20 starts in each of the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, Hammel is 49-59 with a 4.80 ERA in 215 games (158 starts) with Tampa Bay, Colorado and Baltimore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mesa, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Cubs agreed to terms with pitchers James McDonald and Jason Hammel on one-year contracts Thursday. McDonald joins the Cubs after spending the past three-plus seasons with Pittsburgh and is coming off an injury-plagued 2013. He made only six starts for the Pirates last year, none after April 30, due [&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":[30,207,208],"class_list":["post-14299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14299","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=14299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}