{"id":14929,"date":"2014-02-22T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/reports-os-add-cruz\/"},"modified":"2014-02-22T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T22:20:07","slug":"reports-os-add-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/reports-os-add-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: O&#8217;s add Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Baltimore Orioles have reportedly added another power bat to their lineup.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple reports, the club agreed to terms on a one-year, $8 million contract with free-agent outfielder Nelson Cruz on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, who rejected a qualifying offer from the Texas Rangers, will also likely platoon in the designated-hitter role.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old missed 50 games last season while serving a suspension linked to the Biogenesis scandal. He hit .266 with 27 homers and 76 RBI over 109 games with the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, Cruz has batted .268, clubbed 157 homers and driven in 489 runs in 804 games, all but eight with Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Baltimore Orioles have reportedly added another power bat to their lineup. According to multiple reports, the club agreed to terms on a one-year, $8 million contract with free-agent outfielder Nelson Cruz on Saturday. Cruz, who rejected a qualifying offer from the Texas Rangers, will also likely platoon in the designated-hitter role. The [&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":[12,45,46],"class_list":["post-14929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-orioles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929","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=14929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14938,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929\/revisions\/14938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}