{"id":7897,"date":"2013-11-13T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/athletics-add-punto\/"},"modified":"2013-11-13T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T14:16:00","slug":"athletics-add-punto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/athletics-add-punto\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics add Punto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Oakland Athletics have agreed to terms with infielder Nick Punto on a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Financial details were not disclosed, but the deal includes a vesting option for 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Punto spent the 2013 campaign with the Los Angeles Dodgers and batted .255 in 116 games with a pair of homers and 21 runs batted in. The versatile veteran made 33 starts at shortstop, 21 starts at second base and 17 at third base.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old journeyman has a career .248 batting average in 1,090 games with Philadelphia (2001-03), Minnesota (2004-10), St. Louis (2011), Boston (2012) and the Dodgers (2012-13). He was a member of the Cardinals&#8217; World Series championship team in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Oakland Athletics have agreed to terms with infielder Nick Punto on a one-year contract. Financial details were not disclosed, but the deal includes a vesting option for 2015. Punto spent the 2013 campaign with the Los Angeles Dodgers and batted .255 in 116 games with a pair of homers 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":[41,40,39],"class_list":["post-7897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-athletics","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897","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=7897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}