{"id":10610,"date":"2016-01-14T11:58:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10610"},"modified":"2016-01-14T11:58:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:58:37","slug":"orioles-avoid-arbitration-with-mark-trumbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2016\/01\/14\/orioles-avoid-arbitration-with-mark-trumbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles avoid arbitration with Mark Trumbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/marktrumbo.jpg\" alt=\"marktrumbo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/marktrumbo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/marktrumbo-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Orioles and Mark Trumbo have avoided arbitration. Trumbo will earn $9.15 million in his final year of arbitration while playing in the Charm City.<\/p>\n<p>Acquired from the Mariners in early December, Trumbo can become a free agent after the 2016 season assuming the Orioles and the outfielder\/first baseman do not work out a long-term deal.<\/p>\n<p>Given the 29-year-old&#8217;s power ability and the fact that he will be playing half of his games at Camden Yards, Trumbo is a worthwhile bet for fantasy baseball players though his start of the season may be sluggish thanks in part to low temperatures.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mark Trumbo of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Orioles?src=hash\">#Orioles<\/a> agrees to a $9.15M deal to avoid salary arbitration.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jcrasnick\/status\/687675008718606336\">January 14, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trumbo will look to improve on a .262\/.310\/.449 line which saw him hit 22 home runs and drive in 64 runs in 142 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles are still looking to re-sign Chris Davis. Should Davis re-sign he will almost surely push Trumbo to the outfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orioles and Mark Trumbo have avoided arbitration. Trumbo will earn $9.15 million in his final year of arbitration while playing in the Charm City. Acquired from the Mariners in early December, Trumbo can become a free agent after the 2016 season assuming the Orioles and the outfielder\/first baseman do not work out a long-term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,503,562,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mark-trumbo","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10613,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610\/revisions\/10613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10610"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}