{"id":29372,"date":"2015-02-07T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bucs-2b-walker-loses-arbitration-hearing\/"},"modified":"2015-02-07T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T15:11:00","slug":"bucs-2b-walker-loses-arbitration-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bucs-2b-walker-loses-arbitration-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs 2B Walker loses arbitration hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Neil Walker lost his arbitration case, but will still make some decent money for the 2015 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Saturday that Walker had filed for arbitration at $9 million for next season while the club was pushing for $8 million, and an MLB panel used to resolve these disputes elected to go with the lower figure.<\/p>\n<p>Walker, who made $5.75 million last season, finished with a .271 average along with a career-high 23 home runs, 25 doubles and 76 RBI over 137 games for the wild-card entrant Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>Over a six-year career spent entirely with his hometown team, the 29-year-old Walker has collected 77 homers, 142 doubles, 336 runs scored and 347 RBI with a .273 average over 685 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Neil Walker lost his arbitration case, but will still make some decent money for the 2015 season. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Saturday that Walker had filed for arbitration at $9 million for next season while the club was pushing for $8 million, and an MLB panel used [&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":[180,143,179],"class_list":["post-29372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29372","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=29372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}