{"id":4273,"date":"2013-08-07T19:53:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T23:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4273"},"modified":"2013-08-08T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T14:23:41","slug":"chase-utley-agress-to-two-year-extension-with-phillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/07\/chase-utley-agress-to-two-year-extension-with-phillies\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Utley agrees to two-year extension with Phillies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4275\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4275\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4275\" alt=\"Source: Jim McIsaac\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/chaseutley.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/chaseutley.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/chaseutley-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Jim McIsaac\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Philadelphia Pillies and second baseman Chase Utley have reached an agreement on a two-year contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>Utley, 34, was one of a handful of veteran players the Phillies opted to keep at the July 31 trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The deal with Utley and the Phillies appears to be worth $27 million over the two seasons but there are options that could extend the deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Utley deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Phillies&amp;src=hash\">#Phillies<\/a>, per sources, also includes multiple vesting options. Those options likely critical to deal. Details not yet known<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/365255929635151872\">August 7, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>HALLADAY: <\/strong> <a title=\"Roy Halladay heading to Phillies spring training complex\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/07\/roy-halladay-heading-to-phillies-spring-training-complex\/\">Doc reports to spring training complex<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The re-signing of Utley suggests that the Phillies are not planning to go into a rebuilding phase even as earlier today <a title=\"Phillies and Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez hit snag on potential deal\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/07\/phillies-and-miguel-alfredo-gonzalez-hit-snag-on-potential-deal\/\">questions were raised<\/a> about the status of the teams contract with Cuban pitcher Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>Though 83 games this season Utley is hitting a .275\/.336\/.505 with 15 home runs and 42 RBI and 49 runs scored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Pillies and second baseman Chase Utley have reached an agreement on a two-year contract extension. Utley, 34, was one of a handful of veteran players the Phillies opted to keep at the July 31 trade deadline. The deal with Utley and the Phillies appears to be worth $27 million over the two seasons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[434,109],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chase-utley","9":"tag-philadelphia-phillies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273","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=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}