{"id":3721,"date":"2013-07-20T01:43:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T05:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3721"},"modified":"2013-07-20T01:43:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T05:43:32","slug":"red-sox-working-on-100-million-extension-with-dustin-pedroia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/20\/red-sox-working-on-100-million-extension-with-dustin-pedroia\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox working on $100 million extension with Dustin Pedroia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3722\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3722\" alt=\"dustinpedroia\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/dustinpedroia.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/dustinpedroia.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/dustinpedroia-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Al Messerschmidt\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Boston Red Sox and second baseman Dustin Pedroia are closing on a contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>According to major league sources, the Red Sox made a formal offer to Pedroia and his New York-based agents, Sam and Seth Levinson, over the All-Star break in New York.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/red-sox-talking-lucrative-extension-with-pedroia-215140972.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo! Sports<\/a> reported the deal could be in the $100 million range and average more than $20 million a year.<\/p>\n<p>Pedroia declined to talk about his contract status after the Red Sox win over the New York Yankees on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is all I know,&#8221; said Pedroia, who will turn 30 on Aug 17. &#8220;These guys are my family. If it got to that point, it would be great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pedroia is being paid $10 million this season and has another $10 million owed him in 2014, the last year of the six-year, $40.5 million deal he signed after his MVP season. There is an $11 million club option in 2015, with a $500,000 buyout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox and second baseman Dustin Pedroia are closing on a contract extension. According to major league sources, the Red Sox made a formal offer to Pedroia and his New York-based agents, Sam and Seth Levinson, over the All-Star break in New York. Yahoo! Sports reported the deal could be in the $100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,410],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-3721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-dustin-pedroia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721","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=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}