{"id":6314,"date":"2014-02-10T22:05:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T03:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6314"},"modified":"2014-02-10T22:05:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T03:05:48","slug":"michael-brantley-gets-four-year-extension-from-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/10\/michael-brantley-gets-four-year-extension-from-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Brantley gets four-year extension from Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6315\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/michaelbrantley.jpg\" alt=\"getty\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/michaelbrantley.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/michaelbrantley-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Cleveland Indians and outfielder Michael Brantley have reached a four-year extension.<\/p>\n<p>Brantley, 26, will get $25 million over the next four seasons while the club will have a $11 million option for 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Brantley&#39;s deal is done. Four years for $25 million with an $11 million club option. AAV of deal is $6.25 million a year. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Indians&amp;src=hash\">#Indians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; paul hoynes (@hoynsie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hoynsie\/statuses\/433060751452819456\">February 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Arbitration-eligble for the first time, the Indians took a page out of their own book by giving him a extension to buy out as much as two years of his free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Brantley hit .284\/.332\/.396 last season with 10 home runs, 73 RBI and 17 stolen bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Indians and outfielder Michael Brantley have reached a four-year extension. Brantley, 26, will get $25 million over the next four seasons while the club will have a $11 million option for 2018. Brantley&#39;s deal is done. Four years for $25 million with an $11 million club option. AAV of deal is $6.25 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[156,503,638,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cleveland-indians","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-michael-brantley","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6314","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=6314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6314"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}