{"id":11669,"date":"2019-10-31T13:28:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11669"},"modified":"2019-10-31T13:28:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:28:45","slug":"yu-darvish-not-opting-out-of-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2019\/10\/31\/yu-darvish-not-opting-out-of-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Yu Darvish not opting out of contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/10\/img_6188.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11668\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/10\/img_6188.jpg 656w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/10\/img_6188-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yu Darvish has elected not to opt out of his current contract. The decision ensures the 33-year-old will be part of the Cubs rotation in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Darvish has four years and $81 million remaining on his contract.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Darvish finished the year with a <span style=\"caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.41999998688697815px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">3.98 ERA, 1.097 WHIP, and 229\/56 K\/BB ratio in 178 2\/3 innings<\/span>.<span style=\"caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67); color: rgb(60, 64, 67); font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.41999998688697815px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yu Darvish has elected not to opt out of his current contract. The decision ensures the 33-year-old will be part of the Cubs rotation in 2020. Darvish has four years and $81 million remaining on his contract. Last season Darvish finished the year with a 3.98 ERA, 1.097 WHIP, and 229\/56 K\/BB ratio in 178 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,503,501,395],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-11669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-front","tag-mlb","tag-yu-darvish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11669","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=11669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11670,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11669\/revisions\/11670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11669"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}