{"id":6159,"date":"2013-10-10T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-sweeney-agree-to-two-year-contract\/"},"modified":"2013-10-10T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T15:36:00","slug":"cubs-sweeney-agree-to-two-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-sweeney-agree-to-two-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs, Sweeney agree to two-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Cubs agreed to terms on a two- year contract with outfielder Ryan Sweeney on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though the pact does include a club option for the 2016 season.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney batted .266 with 13 doubles, six home runs and 19 RBI in 70 games with the Cubs during the 2013 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>A second-round pick of the White Sox back in 2003, the 28-year-old Sweeney owns a career .278 average with 20 homers and 204 RBI in 605 games over parts of eight seasons with the White Sox, Athletics, Red Sox and Cubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Cubs agreed to terms on a two- year contract with outfielder Ryan Sweeney on Thursday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though the pact does include a club option for the 2016 season. Sweeney batted .266 with 13 doubles, six home runs and 19 RBI in 70 [&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-6159","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\/6159","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=6159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}