{"id":8287,"date":"2013-11-20T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-indians-reach-deal-with-of-murphy\/"},"modified":"2013-11-20T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:58:00","slug":"report-indians-reach-deal-with-of-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-indians-reach-deal-with-of-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Indians reach deal with OF Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cleveland Indians have agreed to terms with outfielder David Murphy on a two-year contract, multiple sources told MLB.com on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, which also includes a team option for the 2016 season, is reportedly worth $12 million over the next two seasons and is pending the completion of a physical that Murphy is scheduled to undergo on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy heads to the Indians after a seven-year stint with the Texas Rangers and owns a .275 average in 849 career games. The 32-year-old has reached double digits in home runs in each of the last six seasons, though he is coming off a down year in which he hit a career-low .220 while compiling 13 homers and 45 RBI over 142 games.<\/p>\n<p>A former first-round pick of Boston, Murphy broke into the majors with the Red Sox in 2006 under current Indians manager Terry Francona.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy, a left-handed hitter, will likely be used in a platoon with Drew Stubbs in right field with the Indians. Stubbs, Cleveland&#8217;s primary starter at that position last season, batted just .233 with 10 homers in 2013 and particulary struggled when facing right-handed pitching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cleveland Indians have agreed to terms with outfielder David Murphy on a two-year contract, multiple sources told MLB.com on Wednesday. The deal, which also includes a team option for the 2016 season, is reportedly worth $12 million over the next two seasons and is pending the completion of a physical [&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":[54,53,55],"class_list":["post-8287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-indians","tag-indians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287","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=8287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}