{"id":10781,"date":"2017-09-22T10:51:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T14:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10781"},"modified":"2017-09-22T10:53:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T14:53:45","slug":"reds-give-tucker-barnhart-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2017\/09\/22\/reds-give-tucker-barnhart-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds give Tucker Barnhart extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10782\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/09\/tuckerbarnhart.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/09\/tuckerbarnhart.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/09\/tuckerbarnhart-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Reds seem to have made a decision on their long-term solution behind the plate agreeing to a four-year contract with catcher Tucker Barnhardt.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday the club will hand out bobbleheads after fans selected him as the winner of a contest and now the front office is going to pay up with a $15.5 million extension though 2021 which includes a $7.5 million club option for 2022 with a $500,000 buyout.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Reds?src=hash\">#Reds<\/a> and C <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tucker_Barnhart\">@Tucker_Barnhart<\/a> have agreed to terms on a 4-year contract extension through the 2021 season with a club option for 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z2fLNZ0ETa\">pic.twitter.com\/z2fLNZ0ETa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cincinnati Reds (@Reds) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reds\/status\/911213613729423360\">September 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Barnhardt has been thrust into a regular role with the Reds thanks in part to the injury history of Devin Mesoraco. With Barnhart hitting .272\/.349\/.399\u00a0 this season in addition to his solid work behind the plate the Reds will likely see if anyone is willing to take on the $13.125 million owed to Mesoraco for the 2018 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Terms, per source:  $1.75M signing bonus. $4M in 2018, $2.5M in 2019, $3.5M in 2020, $3.75M in 2021,  $7.5M opt in 2022 with a 500k buyout.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Zach Buchanan (@ZachENQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZachENQ\/status\/911214087115300864\">September 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Barnhart&#8217;s 113 games this season is just 2 behind a career high set last year. He owns a 3.4 WAR this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reds seem to have made a decision on their long-term solution behind the plate agreeing to a four-year contract with catcher Tucker Barnhardt. On Saturday the club will hand out bobbleheads after fans selected him as the winner of a contest and now the front office is going to pay up with a $15.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,1005],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-10781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-mlb","tag-tucker-barnhart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781","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=10781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10785,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions\/10785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}