{"id":8324,"date":"2013-11-21T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-add-vargas-to-rotation\/"},"modified":"2013-11-21T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:36:00","slug":"royals-add-vargas-to-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-add-vargas-to-rotation\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals add Vargas to rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals signed free-agent pitcher Jason Vargas to a four-year contract on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is reportedly worth $32 million.<\/p>\n<p>Vargas went 9-8 with a 4.02 earned run average in 24 starts for the Angels last season. He missed almost two months in his lone campaign with Los Angeles after having surgery to remove a blood clot in his left armpit.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels acquired the southpaw in a trade with Seattle last December.<\/p>\n<p>Vargas, who turns 31 in February, has compiled a 51-58 career record with a 4.30 ERA in 154 starts and 20 relief appearances. He was a staple of the Mariners&#8217; rotation during his four years with the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals signed free-agent pitcher Jason Vargas to a four-year contract on Thursday. The deal is reportedly worth $32 million. Vargas went 9-8 with a 4.02 earned run average in 24 starts for the Angels last season. He missed almost two months in his lone campaign with Los [&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-8324","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\/8324","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=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}