{"id":27031,"date":"2014-12-11T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-dodgers-sign-p-mccarthy\/"},"modified":"2014-12-11T08:30:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T08:30:28","slug":"report-dodgers-sign-p-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-dodgers-sign-p-mccarthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Dodgers sign P McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Dodgers weren&#8217;t finished on Wednesday after overhauling their middle infield at the Winter Meetings.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple reports, veteran pitcher Brandon McCarthy will sign a four-year, $48 million deal with Los Angeles, bolstering an already strong starting rotation.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after the Dodgers acquired shortstop Jimmy Rollins and second baseman Howie Kendrick in separate deals.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy, 31, is coming off the first 200-inning season of his career. After posting a 3-10 record with a 5.01 ERA in 18 starts with Arizona, he was traded in early July to the New York Yankees, where he pitched much better with a superior defense behind him.<\/p>\n<p>In 14 starts with the Yankees, he improved his ERA to 2.89 and won seven games. His 5.30 K\/BB ratio was ninth among all major league starters.<\/p>\n<p>In nine seasons split between the White Sox, Rangers, Athletics, Diamondbacks and Yankees, McCarthy owns a 52-65 record and 4.09 ERA in 989 1\/3 career innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Dodgers weren&#8217;t finished on Wednesday after overhauling their middle infield at the Winter Meetings. According to multiple reports, veteran pitcher Brandon McCarthy will sign a four-year, $48 million deal with Los Angeles, bolstering an already strong starting rotation. The move comes after the Dodgers acquired shortstop Jimmy Rollins and [&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":[134,21,133],"class_list":["post-27031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-dodgers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27031","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=27031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27032,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27031\/revisions\/27032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}