{"id":5589,"date":"2013-12-13T14:49:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T19:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5589"},"modified":"2013-12-13T14:49:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T19:49:47","slug":"red-sox-trying-to-extend-david-ortiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/13\/red-sox-trying-to-extend-david-ortiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox trying to extend David Ortiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5110\" alt=\"ortiz\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/ortiz.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/ortiz.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/ortiz-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Boston Red Sox have re-signed Mike Napoli and now they appear to be working towards an extension with David Ortiz.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz, 38, showed no signs of slowing down last season compiling a .309\/.395\/.564 line with 30 home runs and 103 RBI in the regular season before claiming the World Series MVP.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Ortiz said his agent talking with Red Sox right now about extending deal another year<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rob Bradford (@bradfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bradfo\/statuses\/411554883415060481\">December 13, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox owe Ortiz $15 million for the 2014 season. It took the two sides some time to agree to his current deal but they found a way. There&#8217;s next to no chance that Ortiz leaves Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox have re-signed Mike Napoli and now they appear to be working towards an extension with David Ortiz. Ortiz, 38, showed no signs of slowing down last season compiling a .309\/.395\/.564 line with 30 home runs and 103 RBI in the regular season before claiming the World Series MVP. Ortiz said his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,26,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-boston-red-sox","9":"tag-david-ortiz","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589","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=5589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5589"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}