{"id":4119,"date":"2013-07-31T10:52:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2013-07-31T10:52:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:52:05","slug":"phillies-working-on-contract-extension-with-chase-utley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/31\/phillies-working-on-contract-extension-with-chase-utley\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies working on contract extension with Chase Utley"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3241\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3241\" alt=\"Source: Rich Schultz\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/chaseutley.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/chaseutley.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/chaseutley-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Rich Schultz\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Philadelphia Phillies will not be trading Chase Utley, but instead are working on a contract extension with the 34-year old.<\/p>\n<p>Utley as been termed as the the teams, &#8220;franchise player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CBSSports Jon Heyman reported that the Phillies and Utley are working on an extension that would cover three years or two years with a vesting option for a third, saying that the deal would pay him around $13 million per season.<\/p>\n<p>The deal would be a raise for Utley as he is finishing up an $85-million, seven-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Utley is hitting .277 with 13 home runs and 36 RBI this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Phillies will not be trading Chase Utley, but instead are working on a contract extension with the 34-year old. Utley as been termed as the the teams, &#8220;franchise player.&#8221; CBSSports Jon Heyman reported that the Phillies and Utley are working on an extension that would cover three years or two years with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-4119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}