{"id":4215,"date":"2013-08-27T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-sign-pena-to-minor-league-deal\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T00:25:09","slug":"royals-sign-pena-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-sign-pena-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals sign Pena to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals and veteran first baseman Carlos Pena agreed to terms on a minor league contract Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Pena batted .209 with eight homers and 25 RBI over 85 games with Houston before being designated for assignment in July.<\/p>\n<p>Pena is a career .233 hitter and has clubbed 285 homers in 1,471 major league games with Texas, Oakland, Detroit, Boston, Tampa Bay, the Chicago Cubs and Astros.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals also completed a minor league trade, acquiring pitcher Clayton Mortensen from the Boston Red Sox in exchange for outfielder Quintin Berry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals and veteran first baseman Carlos Pena agreed to terms on a minor league contract Tuesday. The 35-year-old Pena batted .209 with eight homers and 25 RBI over 85 games with Houston before being designated for assignment in July. Pena is a career .233 hitter 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":[110,216,217],"class_list":["post-4215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215","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=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4233,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions\/4233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}