{"id":9259,"date":"2014-10-31T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9259"},"modified":"2014-10-31T15:40:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T19:40:07","slug":"rays-pick-up-2015-option-on-ben-zobrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/10\/31\/rays-pick-up-2015-option-on-ben-zobrist\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays pick up 2015 option on Ben Zobrist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/benzobrist.jpg\" alt=\"benzobrist\" width=\"594\" height=\"423\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/benzobrist.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/benzobrist-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Tampa Bay Rays have exercised the 2015 option on Ben Zobrist.<\/p>\n<p>Zobrist, 33, will make $7.5 million this coming season in the final year of his contract. Given the Rays needs and his future free agency, it would not be a complete shock if the Rays traded Zobrist this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Zobrist appeared in 146 games last season hitting .272\/.354\/.395 with 10 home runs and 52 RBI. HIs ability to play across the diamond and get on base continue to make Zobrist a valuable major league player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays have exercised the 2015 option on Ben Zobrist. Zobrist, 33, will make $7.5 million this coming season in the final year of his contract. Given the Rays needs and his future free agency, it would not be a complete shock if the Rays traded Zobrist this spring. Zobrist appeared in 146 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[745,501,179],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ben-zobrist","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-tampa-bay-rays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259","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=9259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9261,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259\/revisions\/9261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9259"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}