{"id":9267,"date":"2014-11-01T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T17:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9267"},"modified":"2014-11-01T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T18:23:44","slug":"blue-jays-pick-up-adam-linds-option-decline-sergio-santos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/01\/blue-jays-pick-up-adam-linds-option-decline-sergio-santos\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays pick up Adam Lind&#8217;s option, decline Sergio Santos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9268\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/adamlind.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"373\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/adamlind.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/adamlind-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/adamlind-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Toronto Blue Jays have picked up the option on first baseman Adam Lind for 2015. Lind will make $7.5 million next season as part of the option.<\/p>\n<p>Lind, 31, appeared in 96 games last season before injury hitting .321\/.381\/.479 with six homers and 40 RBI. <\/p>\n<p>Given the Blue Jays decision to pick up Justin Smoak, there is a good chance that Lind could be moved prior to spring training. <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Brewers in talks to acquire Lind.<\/p>\n<p>One player who will not be returning to the Blue Jays next season is pitcher Sergio Santos.<\/p>\n<p>Santos, 31, is a hard throwing reliever who should have no problem finding a new home. He had a $6 million option for 2015 but instead will get a $750,000 buyout after posting a 8.57 ERA, 2.19 WHIP and 29\/18 K\/BB ratio over 21 innings of work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays have picked up the option on first baseman Adam Lind for 2015. Lind will make $7.5 million next season as part of the option. Lind, 31, appeared in 96 games last season before injury hitting .321\/.381\/.479 with six homers and 40 RBI. Given the Blue Jays decision to pick up Justin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[295,501,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-adam-lind","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9267","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=9267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9274,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9267\/revisions\/9274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9267"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}