{"id":6498,"date":"2014-02-23T14:13:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T19:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6498"},"modified":"2014-02-23T14:13:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T19:13:05","slug":"angels-and-mike-trout-working-on-massive-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/23\/angels-and-mike-trout-working-on-massive-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels and Mike Trout working on massive extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6499\" alt=\"miketrout\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/miketrout.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/miketrout.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/miketrout-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angles Angels and outfielder Mike Trout are working on a contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning his third season, Trout is set to receive a six-year extension worth $150 million reports <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/source--angels--mike-trout-talking-monster-extension-184204188.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yahoo Sports<\/a>&#8216; Jeff Passan. The deal would buy out two of Trout&#8217;s free agency seasons but would allow him to hit the market at 28 which could net him another massive deal.<\/p>\n<p>Twice Trout has finished as the runner up for the American League MVP award. He proved his rookie season was no fluke by hitting \u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.323\/.432\/.557 with 27 home runs, 33 stolen bases and an AL-leading 110 walks during the 2013 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_9_1_1_1393182439232_1198\">Earlier this week Trout declined to comment about a possible extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angles Angels and outfielder Mike Trout are working on a contract extension. Beginning his third season, Trout is set to receive a six-year extension worth $150 million reports Yahoo Sports&#8216; Jeff Passan. The deal would buy out two of Trout&#8217;s free agency seasons but would allow him to hit the market at 28 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,114,84,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-los-angeles-angels","10":"tag-mike-trout","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498","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=6498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6498"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}