{"id":8053,"date":"2014-06-02T14:02:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T18:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8053"},"modified":"2014-06-02T14:02:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T18:02:15","slug":"astros-reach-extension-with-jon-singleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/02\/astros-reach-extension-with-jon-singleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros reach extension with Jon Singleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/jonsingleton.jpg\" alt=\"MLB: Spring Training-Houston Astros at Miami Marlins\" width=\"730\" height=\"486\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8054\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/jonsingleton.jpg 730w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/jonsingleton-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><br \/>\nJon Singleton has not even had his first major league a-bat and already the 22-year-old has gotten his first extension.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports, the Astros have signed Singleton to a five-year extension with three club option years.<\/p>\n<p>Singleton will get $10 million in guaranteed money and if all the options are picked up and some incentives are reached the value of the deal can increase to $35 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source: Astros, minor league 1B Jon Singleton agree on historic long-term deal. $10M guaranteed, up to $35M. News coming on Yahoo Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/statuses\/473508443890790400\">June 2, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The biggest attribute Singleton can bring to the Astros is power. Though 54 games at Triple-A Oklahoma City he had 14 home runs, 43 RBI and a .941 OPS to go along with a .267 batting average and .394 on-base percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Its a historic deal for a player with no MLB service time but the Astros are hopeful that it will mark the beginning of a turnaround. Only time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Singleton has not even had his first major league a-bat and already the 22-year-old has gotten his first extension. According to Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports, the Astros have signed Singleton to a five-year extension with three club option years. Singleton will get $10 million in guaranteed money and if all the options are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,93,775,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-houston-astros","10":"tag-jon-singleton","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053","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=8053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8055,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053\/revisions\/8055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8053"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}