{"id":145,"date":"2012-10-06T13:27:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T17:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=145"},"modified":"2012-10-06T13:27:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T17:27:17","slug":"mets-could-re-sign-david-wright-and-ra-dickey-by-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/10\/06\/mets-could-re-sign-david-wright-and-ra-dickey-by-world-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets could re-sign David Wright and RA Dickey by World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www4.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/David+Wright+Pittsburgh+Pirates+v+New+York+IrR4fmZtz1Kl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"391\" \/>The New York Mets would like to retain third basemen David Wright and pitcher R.A. Dickey for years to come. The team is working on re-signing the two to multi-year deals before their current contracts expire after the 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>Wright has long been considered a cornerstone of the Mets. He is believed to be seeking a long term deal of seven years or more worth $125 million. Wright has a club option of $16 million for the 2013 season. He compiled a\u00a0 .306\/.391\/.492 line in 2012 while hitting 21 home runs and driving in 93 RBI. Wright has spent his entire 9 years of major league service with the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>R.A. Dickey has been one of the biggest surprises in baseball the last couple of seasons. Dickey has a $5 million option for next season but is believed to be willing to test free agency if a deal cannot be worked out before sprint training. Dickey won 20 games this season and had a 2.73 ERA. Dickey is on a short list for the NL Cy Young award.<\/p>\n<p>Tthe New York Post&#8217;s Mike Puma believes the Mets and both players could have contracts worked out prior to the World Series starting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Mets would like to retain third basemen David Wright and pitcher R.A. Dickey for years to come. The team is working on re-signing the two to multi-year deals before their current contracts expire after the 2013 season. Wright has long been considered a cornerstone of the Mets. He is believed to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[31,32],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-david-wright","8":"tag-ra-dickey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","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=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}