{"id":453,"date":"2013-05-20T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-take-flyer-on-aardsma\/"},"modified":"2013-05-20T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:50:00","slug":"mets-take-flyer-on-aardsma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-take-flyer-on-aardsma\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets take flyer on Aardsma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Mets signed pitcher David Aardsma to a minor league contract on Monday and assigned the right-hander to Triple-A Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Aardsma made one appearance with the New York Yankees last season after recovering from elbow ligament replacement surgery.<\/p>\n<p>After being designated for assignment by the Yankees in March, Aardsma joined Miami&#8217;s Triple-A affiliate in New Orleans. He went 1-0 with a 2.57 ERA in 10 games before being released by the Marlins on May 15.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the procedure that wiped out his 2011 season, Aardsma served as the Seattle Mariners&#8217; closer for two years. The Rice product complied 38 saves in 2009 and 31 the next year.<\/p>\n<p>Aardsma is 13-15 with a 4.22 ERA in 255 career relief appearances. He has also pitched for the Giants, Cubs, White Sox and Red Sox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Mets signed pitcher David Aardsma to a minor league contract on Monday and assigned the right-hander to Triple-A Las Vegas. The 31-year-old Aardsma made one appearance with the New York Yankees last season after recovering from elbow ligament replacement surgery. After being designated for assignment by the [&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":[187,59,186],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","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=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}