{"id":414357,"date":"2022-12-29T20:39:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T20:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/dodgers-sign-j-d-martinez-to-10-million-one-year-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T20:39:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T20:39:55","slug":"dodgers-sign-j-d-martinez-to-10-million-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/dodgers-sign-j-d-martinez-to-10-million-one-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers sign J.D. Martinez to $10 million, one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Los Angeles Dodgers announced Thursday they have signed designated hitter J.D. Martinez to a one-year deal worth $10 million.<\/h1>\n<h2>The deal with the 12-year major league veteran was widely reported last week. He spent five seasons in Boston, was named an All-Star five times and helped the Red Sox win the 2018 World Series.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Martinez, 35, hit .274 with 16 home runs and 62 RBIs in 139 games for the Red Sox. The Red Sox used Martinez exclusively as a designated hitter after he started 35 games in the outfield in 2021. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>After he hit .302 with nine home runs in the first half of 2022, Martinez hit just .233 in the second half with seven homers. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Boston and Houston, Martinez spent time with the Detroit Tigers and Arizona Diamondbacks. In 1,409 career games across 12 major league seasons, Martinez holds a .288 batting average with 282 homers and 899 RBIs to go along with 1,522 hits.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In a corresponding move, the Dodgers designated right-handed pitcher Jake Reed for assignment. Reed, 30, has been up and down with the Dodgers, Orioles, and Mets in the past two seasons, with a 2-1 record and 5.74 ERA in 28 career major-league appearances. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers announced Thursday they have signed designated hitter J.D. Martinez to a one-year deal worth $10 million. The deal with the 12-year major league veteran was widely reported last week. He spent five seasons in Boston, was named an All-Star five times and helped the Red Sox win the 2018 World Series. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles-dodgers","category-mlb"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}