{"id":5175,"date":"2013-11-07T17:31:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T22:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5175"},"modified":"2013-11-07T17:31:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T22:31:58","slug":"rangers-sign-martin-perez-to-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/11\/07\/rangers-sign-martin-perez-to-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers sign Martin Perez to extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5176\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/martinperez.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5176\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/martinperez.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/martinperez-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nLeft handed pitcher Martin Perez was not arbitration-eligible until 2016 but the Texas Rangers went ahead and signed him to a four-year contract on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Perez&#8217;s new deal will cover the 2014-2017 seasons and includes club options for 2018, 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Rangers&amp;src=hash\">#Rangers<\/a> have agreed to terms with LHP Martin Perez on a 4-year contract through 2017 w\/ club options for 2018, 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Durrett (@espn_durrett) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn_durrett\/statuses\/398544145838374912\">November 7, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Rangers will give Perez $12.5 million in guaranteed money but may end up saving a significant amount of money if Perez does develop into the top of the rotation starter that the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Perez, 22, had a 3.62 ERA and 84\/37 K\/BB ratio in 124 1\/3 innings (20 starts) for Texas in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left handed pitcher Martin Perez was not arbitration-eligible until 2016 but the Texas Rangers went ahead and signed him to a four-year contract on Thursday. Perez&#8217;s new deal will cover the 2014-2017 seasons and includes club options for 2018, 2019 and 2020. #Rangers have agreed to terms with LHP Martin Perez on a 4-year contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[513,501,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-martin-perez","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175","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=5175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}