{"id":10077,"date":"2015-02-23T14:30:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T19:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10077"},"modified":"2015-02-23T14:30:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T19:30:49","slug":"rangers-pick-up-option-on-adrian-beltre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/02\/23\/rangers-pick-up-option-on-adrian-beltre\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers pick up option on Adrian Beltre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/02\/adrianbeltre.jpg\" alt=\"adrianbeltre\" width=\"594\" height=\"404\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10078\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/02\/adrianbeltre.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/02\/adrianbeltre-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Texas Rangers have removed any uncertainty about the status of third baseman Adrian Beltre beyond the 2015 season. On Monday the club picked up his $16 million vesting option for the 2016 season.<\/p>\n<p>Beltre, 35, would have had to reach 586 pate appearances in order for the option to vest but now the Rangers are going to remove those requirements and bring him back.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers have previously expressed interest in having Betre retire as a member of the club. Since joining the club he has hit.315\/.364\/.530 over four seasons while averaging 29 home runs and 94 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers have removed any uncertainty about the status of third baseman Adrian Beltre beyond the 2015 season. On Monday the club picked up his $16 million vesting option for the 2016 season. Beltre, 35, would have had to reach 586 pate appearances in order for the option to vest but now the Rangers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[706,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-adrian-beltre","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10079,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077\/revisions\/10079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10077"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}