{"id":2374,"date":"2013-07-12T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blue-jays-fail-to-sign-first-rounder-bickford\/"},"modified":"2013-07-12T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T19:01:00","slug":"blue-jays-fail-to-sign-first-rounder-bickford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blue-jays-fail-to-sign-first-rounder-bickford\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays fail to sign first-rounder Bickford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (Sports Network) &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays were unable to sign their first-round selection in this year&#8217;s MLB First-Year Player Draft, California prep pitcher Phil Bickford, by Friday&#8217;s deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays took Bickford, a standout at Oaks Christian High School in Westlake Village, with the 10th overall pick but weren&#8217;t able to reach an agreement with the right-hander, who will now attend Cal State Fullerton in the fall. As a result, Toronto will receive a compensatory choice at the No. 11 spot of next year&#8217;s draft.<\/p>\n<p>Bickford was the only player among the 33 first-round picks of the 2013 draft not to turn pro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (Sports Network) &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays were unable to sign their first-round selection in this year&#8217;s MLB First-Year Player Draft, California prep pitcher Phil Bickford, by Friday&#8217;s deadline. The Blue Jays took Bickford, a standout at Oaks Christian High School in Westlake Village, with the 10th overall pick but weren&#8217;t able to [&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":[116,115,114],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-blue-jays","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","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=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}