{"id":6150,"date":"2014-01-30T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T18:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6150"},"modified":"2014-01-30T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T18:14:10","slug":"royals-re-sign-pitcher-bruce-chen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/30\/royals-re-sign-pitcher-bruce-chen\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals re-sign pitcher Bruce Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/brucechen.jpg\" alt=\"brucechen\" width=\"594\" height=\"415\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6151\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/brucechen.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/brucechen-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Kansas City Royals have re-signed pitcher Bruce Chen to a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>Chen, 36, will make $4.25 million in 2014 according to Jon Heyman. The new deal also contains a mutual option worth $5.5 million for 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>chen gets $3.25M salary plus $1M buyout ($4.25M total) on $5.5M mutual option for &#39;15. plus $1.25M in performance bonuses<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeymanCBS\/statuses\/428950588919803904\">January 30, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last season Chen pitched 121 innings for the Royals posting a 3.27 ERA and 1.18 WHIP. He should occupy a spot in the Royals rotation to start the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals have re-signed pitcher Bruce Chen to a new contract. Chen, 36, will make $4.25 million in 2014 according to Jon Heyman. The new deal also contains a mutual option worth $5.5 million for 2015. chen gets $3.25M salary plus $1M buyout ($4.25M total) on $5.5M mutual option for &#39;15. plus $1.25M [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[620,137,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-bruce-chen","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150","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=6150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6150"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}