{"id":25731,"date":"2014-11-13T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/phillies-sign-araujo-to-mlb-contract\/"},"modified":"2014-11-13T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:34:00","slug":"phillies-sign-araujo-to-mlb-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/phillies-sign-araujo-to-mlb-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies sign Araujo to MLB contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Philadelphia Phillies have announced the signing of left-handed pitcher Elvis Araujo to a major league contract.<\/p>\n<p>Araujo, 23, has pitched as high as Double-A with Akron (EL). In 2014, he made 43 appearances out of the bullpen for Akron and Class-A Advanced Carolina (CAR), pitching to a 3.42 ERA in 50 innings with 50 strikeouts and 28 walks. He was granted free agency last month.<\/p>\n<p>The Venezuelan native was originally signed by Cleveland in 2007. After missing all of 2009 and much of 2010 with an elbow injury, Araujo was named Cleveland&#8217;s 11th best prospect by Baseball America before the 2012 season. He is currently pitching in the Venezuelan Winter League and has eight strikeouts in seven scoreless innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Philadelphia Phillies have announced the signing of left-handed pitcher Elvis Araujo to a major league contract. Araujo, 23, has pitched as high as Double-A with Akron (EL). In 2014, he made 43 appearances out of the bullpen for Akron and Class-A Advanced Carolina (CAR), pitching to a 3.42 ERA in [&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":[64,194,195],"class_list":["post-25731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25731","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=25731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}