{"id":7103,"date":"2014-04-05T18:15:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7103"},"modified":"2014-04-05T18:15:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T22:15:09","slug":"rays-give-yunel-escobar-two-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/05\/rays-give-yunel-escobar-two-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays give Yunel Escobar two-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7104\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/yunelescobar.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"399\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7104\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/yunelescobar.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/yunelescobar-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Tampa Bay Rays have given shortstop Yunel Escobar a two-year contract extension worth $13 million which includes a club option for the 2017 season.<\/p>\n<p>An announcement was made prior to Saturday&#8217;s game against the Texas Rangers by Rays manager Joe Maddon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYunel has been a tremendous addition to our infield and was a critical part of our success last year,\u201d said club president Andrew Friedman in a statement. \u201cHe brings enthusiasm and energy to our group on a daily basis to go along with his abilities on the field. We are excited to have the opportunity to extend his time in our uniform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Escobar is coming off a 2013 season in which he hit .256\/.332\/.366 in 153 games for the Rays. He is considered one of the better defensive options at shortstop in baseball and has been durable throughout his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays have given shortstop Yunel Escobar a two-year contract extension worth $13 million which includes a club option for the 2017 season. An announcement was made prior to Saturday&#8217;s game against the Texas Rangers by Rays manager Joe Maddon. \u201cYunel has been a tremendous addition to our infield and was a critical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,179,699],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","11":"tag-yunel-escobar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103","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=7103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7105,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions\/7105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7103"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}