{"id":20604,"date":"2014-07-08T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-ink-p-saunders-to-minor-league-deal\/"},"modified":"2014-07-08T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T15:55:00","slug":"royals-ink-p-saunders-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-ink-p-saunders-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals ink P Saunders to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals have signed pitcher Joe Saunders to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A Omaha, the team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Saunders, an All-Star and 17-game winner with the Angels in 2008, had been designated for assignment by Texas last week and eventually released by the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran lefty struggled mightily over eight starts with the Rangers this season, compiling an 0-5 record with a 6.13 earned run average and allowing opposing hitters to hit .356 off of him.<\/p>\n<p>Saunders owns an 89-86 overall record with a 4.35 ERA over 10 major league seasons with the Angels, Arizona Diamondbacks, Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners and Rangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals have signed pitcher Joe Saunders to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A Omaha, the team announced Tuesday. Saunders, an All-Star and 17-game winner with the Angels in 2008, had been designated for assignment by Texas last week and eventually released by the Rangers. [&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":[110,216,217],"class_list":["post-20604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20604","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=20604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}