{"id":26919,"date":"2014-12-09T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/reports-white-sox-sign-robertson-nearing-deal-for-samardzija\/"},"modified":"2014-12-09T01:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T01:22:00","slug":"reports-white-sox-sign-robertson-nearing-deal-for-samardzija","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/reports-white-sox-sign-robertson-nearing-deal-for-samardzija\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: White Sox sign Robertson, nearing deal for Samardzija"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago White Sox have reportedly solidified the back end of their bullpen by signing closer David Robertson to a four-year contract on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>USA Today is reporting that Robertson will make in excess of $40 million over the length of his contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Tribune also reported the club is close to trading for starting right-hander Jeff Samardzija, who pitched to a 2.99 ERA over 33 starts with the Cubs and Athletics last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Tribune did not reveal what the Sox would send Oakland in the proposed deal.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Robertson is coming off a 2014 campaign where he registered 39 saves and struck out 96 batters over 64 1\/3 innings for the New York Yankees. He also compiled a 4-5 record with a 3.08 earned run average.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson has gone 25-19 with a 2.81 ERA and 47 saves in 402 appearances over seven seasons with New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago White Sox have reportedly solidified the back end of their bullpen by signing closer David Robertson to a four-year contract on Monday. USA Today is reporting that Robertson will make in excess of $40 million over the length of his contract. The Chicago Tribune also reported the club is [&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":[30,112,113],"class_list":["post-26919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26919","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=26919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}