{"id":9284,"date":"2014-11-03T12:19:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T17:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9284"},"modified":"2014-11-03T12:19:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T17:19:06","slug":"royals-extend-qualifying-offer-to-james-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/03\/royals-extend-qualifying-offer-to-james-shields\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals extend qualifying offer to James Shields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/jamesshields.jpg\" alt=\"jamesshields\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/jamesshields.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/jamesshields-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nTo the negative James Shields almost single handily prevented the Kansas City Royals from winning the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Still the Royals want to bring back &#8220;Big Game&#8221; Shields and have extended a qualifying offer to him worth $15.3 million. The 32-year-old is expected to decline the offer as he is seeking a multi-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals will do their best to re-sign the right hander who has become one of baseball&#8217;s better pitchers over the last three years. Shields was 14-8 with a 3.21 ERA and a 1.18 WHIP across 227 innings in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Shields was 1-2 with a 6.12 ERA in five post season starts this year which included two losses in the World Series two the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the negative James Shields almost single handily prevented the Kansas City Royals from winning the World Series. Still the Royals want to bring back &#8220;Big Game&#8221; Shields and have extended a qualifying offer to him worth $15.3 million. The 32-year-old is expected to decline the offer as he is seeking a multi-year deal. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[853,137,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-james-shields","9":"tag-kansas-city-royals","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284","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=9284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9286,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284\/revisions\/9286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9284"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}