{"id":6534,"date":"2014-02-26T13:50:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T18:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6534"},"modified":"2014-02-26T13:50:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T18:50:21","slug":"angels-give-mike-trout-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/26\/angels-give-mike-trout-one-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels give Mike Trout one-year deal"},"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\" \/><br \/>\nThe Los Angeles Angels have given outfielder Mike Trout a one-year deal worth $1 million.\u00a0It&#8217;s a far cry from the reported $150-$160 million deal that the two sides have been talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Last offseason Trout was given a contract just $20,000 over the league minimum. This year the team was a little more friendly as the two sides have begun contract talks. If a deal is agreed to now the average annual value will not count against the luxury tax until 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Angels&amp;src=hash\">#Angels<\/a> sign Mike Trout to one-year, $1 million contract. Talks continue on long-term extension. Story soon: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/YGLLadQ2iM\">http:\/\/t.co\/YGLLadQ2iM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Shaikin (@BillShaikin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillShaikin\/statuses\/438719949763125248\">February 26, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trout, 22, has been a MVP candidate each of his first two seasons. Last year he finished with a .323\/.432\/.557 line with 27 home runs, 97 RBI, 109 runs and stole 33 bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Angels have given outfielder Mike Trout a one-year deal worth $1 million.\u00a0It&#8217;s a far cry from the reported $150-$160 million deal that the two sides have been talking about. Last offseason Trout was given a contract just $20,000 over the league minimum. This year the team was a little more friendly as [&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":[503,391,84,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-los-angels-angels","10":"tag-mike-trout","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534","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=6534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/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=6534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6534"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}