{"id":9270,"date":"2014-11-01T13:58:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T17:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9270"},"modified":"2014-11-01T13:58:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T17:58:13","slug":"royals-decline-option-on-butler-cubs-exercise-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/01\/royals-decline-option-on-butler-cubs-exercise-turner\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals decline option on Butler, Cubs exercise Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/billybutler.jpg\" alt=\"billybutler\" width=\"594\" height=\"409\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8562\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/billybutler.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/billybutler-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Kansas City Royals have declined the option on Billy Butler.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Butler spent eight seasons with the Royals but is coming off consecutive down seasons which made it easy for the team to decline his $12.5 million option. Instead he will pick up a $1 million buyout.<\/p>\n<p>Butler finished last season hitting .271\/.323\/.379 with nine homers and 66 RBI. There should be a sizable market for Butler even with the down season.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Cubs have exercised the option on pitcher Jacob Turner for 2015.<\/p>\n<p>It was a no-brainer after after the CUbs picked him off the scrap heat from the Miami Marlins. Turner had a 6.13 ERA, 1.60 WHIP and 71\/33 K\/BB ratio over 113 innings last season. He is a favorite to enter spring training in the Cubs rotation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals have declined the option on Billy Butler. The 28-year-old Butler spent eight seasons with the Royals but is coming off consecutive down seasons which made it easy for the team to decline his $12.5 million option. Instead he will pick up a $1 million buyout. Butler finished last season hitting .271\/.323\/.379 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-9270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9270","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=9270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9271,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9270\/revisions\/9271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9270"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}