{"id":27182,"date":"2014-12-14T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-white-sox-add-melky-cabrera\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T08:20:00","slug":"report-white-sox-add-melky-cabrera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-white-sox-add-melky-cabrera\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: White Sox add Melky Cabrera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago White Sox and outfielder Melky Cabrera have reportedly agreed to a three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>According to MLB.com and Chicago radio station 670-AM, the deal, pending a physical, is worth between $42 million and $43.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Cabrera spent the past two seasons with Toronto. He hit .279 with three homers and 30 RBI in 88 games with the Blue Jays in 2013, then followed with a strong 2014 campaign in which he batted .301 with 16 homers, 35 doubles and 73 RBI in 139 games.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Dominican native played his first five seasons with the New York Yankees, winning a World Series title in 2009, then spent 2010 with Atlanta, 2011 with Kansas City and 2012 with the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Cabrera was the All-Star Game MVP in 2012 and posted a .346 average with 11 homers and 60 RBI in 113 games with the Giants until he was suspended 50 games for a violation of baseball&#8217;s drug policy.<\/p>\n<p>In 1,211 big league games over 10 seasons, Cabrera owns a .286 batting average with 88 homers, 236 doubles and 520 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago White Sox and outfielder Melky Cabrera have reportedly agreed to a three-year contract. According to MLB.com and Chicago radio station 670-AM, the deal, pending a physical, is worth between $42 million and $43.5 million. Cabrera spent the past two seasons with Toronto. He hit .279 with three homers and 30 RBI [&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-27182","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\/27182","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=27182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}