{"id":9272,"date":"2014-11-01T14:05:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T18:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9272"},"modified":"2014-11-01T14:05:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T18:05:03","slug":"burnett-phillies-decline-mutual-option-for-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/01\/burnett-phillies-decline-mutual-option-for-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnett, Phillies decline mutual option for 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7192\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/ajburnett.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7192\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/ajburnett.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/ajburnett-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Philadelphia Phillies and pitcher A.J. Burnett have both declined their ends of a $15 million option for 2015.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear if the 37-year-old will return for next season as he is believed to considering retirement again this year. He still holds a player option worth $12.75 million for next season.<\/p>\n<p>Burnett was 8-18 with a 4.59 ERA in 34 starts in his first year with the Phillies. He will have until Monday to pick up his option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Phillies and pitcher A.J. Burnett have both declined their ends of a $15 million option for 2015. It remains unclear if the 37-year-old will return for next season as he is believed to considering retirement again this year. He still holds a player option worth $12.75 million for next season. Burnett was 8-18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[619,501,109],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-a-j-burnett","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-philadelphia-phillies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272","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=9272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9273,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions\/9273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9272"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}