{"id":8387,"date":"2014-07-02T15:01:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T19:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8387"},"modified":"2014-07-02T15:01:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T19:01:21","slug":"padres-give-seth-smith-two-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/02\/padres-give-seth-smith-two-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres give Seth Smith two-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8380\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8380\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/sethsmith.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"410\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/sethsmith.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/sethsmith-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe San Diego Padres seem to have ruled out trading outfielder Seth Smith after signing him to two-year contract extension on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Smith&#8217;s availability had some contenders contacting the Padres but the team instead have given him a two-year deal worth $13 million. Additionally there is a $7 million club option for 2017 which will guarantee Smith at-least a $250,000 buyout.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The breakdown on the Seth Smith deal is $6m for 2015, $6.75m for 2016 with a $7m club option for 2017 with a 250k buyout. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Padres?src=hash\">#Padres<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Corey Brock (@FollowThePadres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FollowThePadres\/statuses\/484404448316248064\">July 2, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Acquired in the offseason from Oakland for pitcher Luke Gregerson, Smith has been the stalwart of the Padres offense producing a .281\/.384\/.506 batting line and nine homers over 72 games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Padres seem to have ruled out trading outfielder Seth Smith after signing him to two-year contract extension on Wednesday. Smith&#8217;s availability had some contenders contacting the Padres but the team instead have given him a two-year deal worth $13 million. Additionally there is a $7 million club option for 2017 which will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[501,355,601],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-san-diego-padres","10":"tag-seth-smith"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387","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=8387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8388,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8387\/revisions\/8388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8387"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}