{"id":356,"date":"2012-10-23T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=356"},"modified":"2012-10-23T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T19:04:07","slug":"red-sox-and-ortiz-working-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/10\/23\/red-sox-and-ortiz-working-on-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox and Ortiz working on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www3.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/David+Ortiz+Baltimore+Orioles+v+Boston+Red+ohk9VzdhuP3l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"232\" \/>The Boston Red Sox and David Ortiz are close to a new contract. Ortiz has been a mainstay of the Red Sox since 2003 and the new deal is for two years according to Gordon Edes.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Ortiz appeared in 90 games and batted .318\/.415\/.611 with 23 home runs and 60 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox recently completed a deal with the Toronto Blue Jays to acquire manager John Farrell. Locking up Ortiz is next on the Red Sox list of things to do. According to Edes a new deal for Ortiz could be completed as early as Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz is currently working his way back from injury to his Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox and David Ortiz are close to a new contract. Ortiz has been a mainstay of the Red Sox since 2003 and the new deal is for two years according to Gordon Edes. Last season Ortiz appeared in 90 games and batted .318\/.415\/.611 with 23 home runs and 60 RBI. The Red [&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":[27,26],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-david-ortiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","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=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}