{"id":21660,"date":"2014-08-03T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pirates-sign-jayson-nix\/"},"modified":"2014-08-03T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T11:48:00","slug":"pirates-sign-jayson-nix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pirates-sign-jayson-nix\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates sign Jayson Nix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Pirates signed free-agent infielder Jayson Nix prior to Sunday&#8217;s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Nix, 31, went 6-for-39 with one homer in 18 games with the Philadelphia Phillies earlier this season before being granted free agency on May 13. He then signed a minor league deal with the Tampa Bay Rays, who released him on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In 443 career games with the Rockies, White Sox, Indians, Blue Jays, Yankees and Phillies, Nix has hit .216 with 38 homers and 128 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates also optioned infielder Brent Morel to Triple-A Indianapolis and designated infielder Dean Anna for assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Pirates signed free-agent infielder Jayson Nix prior to Sunday&#8217;s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Nix, 31, went 6-for-39 with one homer in 18 games with the Philadelphia Phillies earlier this season before being granted free agency on May 13. He then signed a minor league deal with the Tampa [&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":[180,143,179],"class_list":["post-21660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21660","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=21660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}