{"id":27100,"date":"2014-12-12T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-agree-to-2-year-deal-with-hammel\/"},"modified":"2014-12-12T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T13:02:00","slug":"cubs-agree-to-2-year-deal-with-hammel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-agree-to-2-year-deal-with-hammel\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs agree to 2-year deal with Hammel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Jason Hammel is returning to the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander agreed to a two-year contract on Friday. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the deal includes a club option for the 2017 season.<\/p>\n<p>Hammel signed with the Cubs last February and was 8-5 with a 2.98 ERA in 17 starts before being shipped to Oakland with Jeff Samardzija on July 5. He went just 2-6 with the Athletics, finishing the campaign 10-11 overall with a 3.47 ERA in 30 outings.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old veteran will be reunited with new Cubs manager Joe Maddon. Hammel pitched for Maddon in Tampa Bay from 2006-08, helping the Rays to the World Series in his final year, although he did not pitch for Tampa Bay in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>After his three-year stint with Tampa Bay, Hammel also pitched for Colorado (2009-11) and Baltimore (2012-13) prior to last season. He made one start for the Rockies in the 2009 postseason and two starts for the Orioles in the 2012 playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>In 245 major league appearances, including 187 starts, he owns a career record of 59-70 with a 4.60 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Jason Hammel is returning to the Chicago Cubs. The right-hander agreed to a two-year contract on Friday. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the deal includes a club option for the 2017 season. Hammel signed with the Cubs last February and was 8-5 with a 2.98 ERA in 17 starts before [&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":[30,207,208],"class_list":["post-27100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27100","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=27100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}