{"id":897,"date":"2013-06-28T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pirates-sign-first-round-pick-meadows\/"},"modified":"2013-06-28T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:38:00","slug":"pirates-sign-first-round-pick-meadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pirates-sign-first-round-pick-meadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates sign first-round pick Meadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Pirates announced Friday that the club has signed outfielder Austin Meadows, the ninth overall selection in the 2013 First-Year Player Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Meadows hit .535 with 14 doubles, one triple, four home runs and 28 RBI as a senior this year at Grayson High School in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are excited to add Austin to our already talented minor league system and for him to begin his professional career,&#8221; Pirates director of scouting Joe DelliCarri said. &#8220;He is a talented young man who comes from a very strong family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates have now signed 19 players from the 2013 First-Year Player Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Pirates announced Friday that the club has signed outfielder Austin Meadows, the ninth overall selection in the 2013 First-Year Player Draft. Meadows hit .535 with 14 doubles, one triple, four home runs and 28 RBI as a senior this year at Grayson High School in Georgia. &#8220;We are [&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":[180,143,179],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","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=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}