{"id":9686,"date":"2014-12-15T10:45:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9686"},"modified":"2014-12-15T10:45:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T15:45:26","slug":"nationals-and-bryce-harper-reach-resolution-with-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/15\/nationals-and-bryce-harper-reach-resolution-with-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals and Bryce Harper reach resolution with two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8764\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8764\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8764\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/bryceharper.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/bryceharper.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/bryceharper-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Nationals signed outfielder Bryce Harper to a two-year contract extension worth $7.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>With a new agreement reached the two sides will avoid a grievance hearing that was scheduled for Tuesday. The hearing would have decided if Harper was eligible for salary arbitration as he enters the final year of his five-year, $9.9 million deal that was signed after he was drafted in 2010. Harper has enough service time for Super Two status.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source: Harper, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nationals?src=hash\">#Nationals<\/a> agreed on two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/544482563856039937\">December 15, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nHarper will still have two years of arbitration eligibility when this new two-year agreement runs out and will be able to become a free agent after the 2018 season.<\/p>\n<p>Harper appeared in 100 games last season hitting .273\/.344\/.423 with 13 home runs and 41 runs scored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nationals signed outfielder Bryce Harper to a two-year contract extension worth $7.5 million. With a new agreement reached the two sides will avoid a grievance hearing that was scheduled for Tuesday. The hearing would have decided if Harper was eligible for salary arbitration as he enters the final year of his five-year, $9.9 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[83,503,501,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bryce-harper","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686","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=9686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9687,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686\/revisions\/9687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9686"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}