{"id":5419,"date":"2013-12-03T20:48:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5419"},"modified":"2013-12-03T20:48:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T01:48:08","slug":"yankees-closing-in-on-seven-year-deal-with-jacoby-ellsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/03\/yankees-closing-in-on-seven-year-deal-with-jacoby-ellsbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees closing in on seven-year deal with Jacoby Ellsbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5420\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5420\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/jacobyellsbury.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/jacobyellsbury.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/jacobyellsbury-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe New York Yankees and outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury are closing in on a seven-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mark Feinsand of the New York Daily News the deal is done and will exceed the seven-year $142 million deal that Carl Crawford received a few years ago. Feinsand reports that the deal is for $153 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Yankees deal with Ellsbury is seven years and $153 million. That&#39;s $12 million more than Crawford&#39;s contract.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Feinsand (@FeinsandNYDN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FeinsandNYDN\/statuses\/408048140218933248\">December 4, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The signing of Ellsbury would seem to lessen the chances of Robinson Cano returning to the Yankees but anything could happen. If nothing else a deal with Ellsbury would seem to signal that the Yankees are out of the bidding for Carlos Beltran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees and outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury are closing in on a seven-year deal. According to Mark Feinsand of the New York Daily News the deal is done and will exceed the seven-year $142 million deal that Carl Crawford received a few years ago. Feinsand reports that the deal is for $153 million. Yankees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,352,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-jacoby-ellsbury","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419","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=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}