{"id":6406,"date":"2014-02-16T10:04:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T15:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6406"},"modified":"2014-02-16T10:20:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T15:20:30","slug":"braves-reach-four-year-extension-with-closer-craig-kimbrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/16\/braves-reach-four-year-extension-with-closer-craig-kimbrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves reach four-year extension with closer Craig Kimbrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6407\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6407\" alt=\"craigkimbrel\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/craigkimbrel.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/craigkimbrel.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/craigkimbrel-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is another sigh of relief coming out of Atlanta. The Braves and closer Craig Kimbrel have reached an agreement on a four-year contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>Already this offseason the Braves have given extensions to Julio Teheran, Freddie Freeman and Jason Heyward, Re-signing Kimbrel keeps one of baseballs best in their bullpen for years to come without the arbitration process.<\/p>\n<p>Kimbrel was scheduled for an arbitration hearing much like Heyward and Freeman were before they reached extensions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Kimbrel&#39;s deal is guaranteed to be for four years and $42 million. Potential Max value is five years and $58 million.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlbbowman\/statuses\/435065259632889857\">February 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Braves have bought out one, maybe two years of free agency as the deal includes a club option for 2018. Kimbrel will make $42 million over the first four years with another $3.5 million available in performance bonuses. The fifth year option is worth $13 million if the Braves pick it up\/<\/p>\n<p>In 2013 Kimbrel saved 50 games posting a 1.21 ERA and a 0.88 WHIP over 67 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is another sigh of relief coming out of Atlanta. The Braves and closer Craig Kimbrel have reached an agreement on a four-year contract extension. Already this offseason the Braves have given extensions to Julio Teheran, Freddie Freeman and Jason Heyward, Re-signing Kimbrel keeps one of baseballs best in their bullpen for years to come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,647,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-craig-kimbrel","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406","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=6406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6406"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}