{"id":415901,"date":"2023-02-18T01:55:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T06:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=415901"},"modified":"2023-02-18T01:55:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T06:55:56","slug":"rangers-sign-outfielder-grossman","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rangers-sign-outfielder-grossman\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers sign outfielder Grossman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers signed free agent outfielder Robbie Grossman to a one-year contract, the MLB club announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019ve agreed to terms with OF Robbie Grossman on a one-year deal for the 2023 season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zwWlVEOsQY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zwWlVEOsQY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Texas Rangers (@Rangers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rangers\/status\/1626737015021527047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The deal is reportedly worth a base of $2 million with an additional $3 million in performance incentives.<\/p>\n<p>A corner outfielder, Grossman, split 2022 between the Detroit Tigers and the Atlanta Braves, is likely to see time in a platoon in left field for Texas, which did not have many other proven options at the position.<\/p>\n<p>Grossman\u00a0batted just .209 in 129 games between Detroit and Atlanta, with seven home runs, 19 doubles and 45 RBIs. He averaged .320 against left-handed pitching in 2022 versus just .163 against right-handers.<\/p>\n<p>In 10 seasons with the Houston Astros (2013-15), Minnesota Twins (2016-18), Oakland Athletics (2019-20), Tigers (2021-22) and Braves, Grossman is a .245 career hitter with 80 home runs, 366 RBIs and 63 stolen bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers signed free agent outfielder Robbie Grossman to a one-year contract, the MLB club announced on Friday. We\u2019ve agreed to terms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":415902,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17600,16729,17601,17405],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The deal is reportedly worth a base of $2 million with an additional $3 million in performance incentives","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415901"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=415901"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=415901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}