{"id":10828,"date":"2017-10-12T15:19:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T19:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10828"},"modified":"2017-10-12T15:19:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T19:19:53","slug":"greg-holland-to-opt-out-of-deal-with-rockies-seeks-deal-north-of-15-million-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2017\/10\/12\/greg-holland-to-opt-out-of-deal-with-rockies-seeks-deal-north-of-15-million-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Holland to opt out of deal with Rockies, seeks deal north of $15 million option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10829\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/10\/gregholland.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/10\/gregholland.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/10\/gregholland-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greg Holland tied Kenley Jansen for the lead in the NL with 41 saves. Now the Rockies closer who made the all-star team is expected to decline a $15 million option for the 2018 season as he seeks a larger salary.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Heyman brings the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fanragsports.com\/heyman-greg-holland-will-opt-out-and-aim-high\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news<\/a> and considers the four-year deal given the Mark Melancon of the Giants, worth $62 million, as a comparable deal for Holland. The 2017 season marked the third time Holland has recorded 40 or more saves in a season.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockies are expected to make a play to keep Holland as the two sides are said to have enjoyed their relationship. Holland is a Scott Boras client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Holland tied Kenley Jansen for the lead in the NL with 41 saves. Now the Rockies closer who made the all-star team is expected to decline a $15 million option for the 2018 season as he seeks a larger salary. Jon Heyman brings the news and considers the four-year deal given the Mark Melancon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[190,503,643,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-colorado-rockies","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-greg-holland","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828","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=10828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10830,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions\/10830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10828"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}