{"id":16767,"date":"2014-03-27T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mariners-take-a-chance-on-young\/"},"modified":"2014-03-27T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T12:52:00","slug":"mariners-take-a-chance-on-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mariners-take-a-chance-on-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners take a chance on Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peoria, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners signed veteran right- handed pitcher Chris Young to a contract on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>No terms of the deal were disclosed by the team, but multiple reports state it&#8217;s a one-year, guaranteed pact.<\/p>\n<p>Young last appeared in the majors during the 2012 season, going 4-9 with a 4.15 earned run average in 20 starts for the New York Mets. He spent 2013 pitching for Triple-A Syracuse in the Nationals&#8217; farm system, going 1-2 with a 6.81 ERA, then signed a minor league deal with Washington back in February before being released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Since breaking into the big leagues with Texas in 2004, the 34-year-old native of Dallas has compiled a 53-43 record and 3.79 ERA over 159 starts for the Rangers, Padres and Mets.<\/p>\n<p>To make room on the roster, the Mariners designated left-handed hurler Bobby LaFromboise for assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peoria, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners signed veteran right- handed pitcher Chris Young to a contract on Thursday. No terms of the deal were disclosed by the team, but multiple reports state it&#8217;s a one-year, guaranteed pact. Young last appeared in the majors during the 2012 season, going 4-9 with a 4.15 earned run [&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-16767","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\/16767","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=16767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}