{"id":9245,"date":"2014-10-29T17:45:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9245"},"modified":"2014-10-29T17:45:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:45:03","slug":"reds-decline-option-on-ryan-ludwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/10\/29\/reds-decline-option-on-ryan-ludwick\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds decline option on Ryan Ludwick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/ryanludwick.jpg\" alt=\"ryanludwick\" width=\"490\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9246\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/ryanludwick.jpg 490w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/ryanludwick-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Cincinnati Reds have declined the 2015 option on outfielder Ryan Ludwick.<\/p>\n<p>Ludwick, 36, would have made $9 million had the option been picked up. Given that the Reds owe him $4.5 million as part of the buyout the team must feel the 36-year-old has nothing left to contribute.<\/p>\n<p>A big 2012 campaign landed him a two-year deal worth $18 million from the Reds. After playing in just 38 games in 2013 he returned for 112 this season but managed just a .244\/.308\/.375 line with nine home runs and 45 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cincinnati Reds have declined the 2015 option on outfielder Ryan Ludwick. Ludwick, 36, would have made $9 million had the option been picked up. Given that the Reds owe him $4.5 million as part of the buyout the team must feel the 36-year-old has nothing left to contribute. A big 2012 campaign landed him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[501,861],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-ryan-ludwick"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245","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=9245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9247,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245\/revisions\/9247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9245"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}