{"id":1066,"date":"2013-01-08T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2013-01-08T13:46:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T18:46:16","slug":"adam-laroche-re-signs-with-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/01\/08\/adam-laroche-re-signs-with-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam LaRoche re-signs with Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-832 aligncenter\" alt=\"adamlaroche\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/adamlaroche.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/adamlaroche.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/adamlaroche-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adam LaRoche held out hoping that some team would give him a three year contract. It never happened. On Tuesday the 33-year-old re-signed with the Washington Nationals on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>While LaRoche attempted to generate interest in free agency it was widely assumed that he would eventually return to the Nationals. The Washington Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/jan\/8\/adam-laroche-nationals-agree-2-year-deal-source-sa\/?cache\">reports<\/a> that LaRoche will make $10 million in 2013 and $12 million in 2014. There is also a mutual option for 2015 which includes a $2 million buyout. In total LaRoche will earn at-least $24 million.<\/p>\n<p>The deal includes a mutual option for 2015. He&#8217;ll make $10 million in 2013 and $12 million in 2014 while the buyout includes a $2 million option.<\/p>\n<p>Last season LaRoche was a valuable part of the Nationals lineup as he hit .271\/.343\/.510 with 33 home runs and 100 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>With the signing of LaRoche the Nationals figure to offer Mike Morse to other teams in hopes of acquiring relief help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam LaRoche held out hoping that some team would give him a three year contract. It never happened. On Tuesday the 33-year-old re-signed with the Washington Nationals on a two-year deal. While LaRoche attempted to generate interest in free agency it was widely assumed that he would eventually return to the Nationals. The Washington Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[64,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-adam-laroche","9":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","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=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}