{"id":9256,"date":"2014-10-30T21:52:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T01:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9256"},"modified":"2014-10-30T21:52:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T01:52:43","slug":"orioles-pick-up-chens-option-decline-markakis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/10\/30\/orioles-pick-up-chens-option-decline-markakis\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles pick up Chen&#8217;s option, decline Markakis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9257\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9257\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/weiyinchen.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9257\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/weiyinchen.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/weiyinchen-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Baltimore Orioles will count on left handed pitcher Wei-Yin Chen to be a big part of their rotation next season.<\/p>\n<p>Chen&#8217;s $4.75 million option for 2015 has been picked up after the 29-year-old made 31 starts in 2014 going 16-6 with a 3.54 ERA and a 1.23 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>This was a no-brainer for the Orioles as Chen will be one of the better bargains in all of baseball next season.<\/p>\n<p>One player the Orioles declined the option of was outfielder Nick Markakis.<\/p>\n<p>Again this was not a tough call. Markakis would have made an eye-popping $17.5 million in 2015 had the option been picked up. Ideally the Orioles would re-sign Markakis to a long-term deal at a much lower annual cost. <\/p>\n<p>Markakis finished this year hitting .276\/.342\/.386 with 14 homers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Orioles will count on left handed pitcher Wei-Yin Chen to be a big part of their rotation next season. Chen&#8217;s $4.75 million option for 2015 has been picked up after the 29-year-old made 31 starts in 2014 going 16-6 with a 3.54 ERA and a 1.23 WHIP. This was a no-brainer for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,501,712,863],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-9256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-mlb","tag-nick-markakis","tag-wei-yin-chen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256","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=9256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9258,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256\/revisions\/9258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9256"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}