{"id":10625,"date":"2016-01-15T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10625"},"modified":"2016-01-15T23:00:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T04:00:06","slug":"josh-donaldson-and-blue-jays-close-after-exchanging-arbitration-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2016\/01\/15\/josh-donaldson-and-blue-jays-close-after-exchanging-arbitration-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Donaldson and Blue Jays close after exchanging arbitration figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10626\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/joshdonaldson.jpg\" alt=\"joshdonaldson\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/joshdonaldson.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/joshdonaldson-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Josh Donaldson and the Blue Jays were not far apart when arbitration figures were exchanged on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning AL MVP asked for $11.8 million while the Blue Jays offered the 30-year-old $11.35 million.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a season in which he hit\u00a0.297\/.371\/.568 with 41 home runs, a league-best 123 RBI and an MLB-best 122 runs, Donaldson is expected to again be a big part of the Blue Jays lineup next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Donaldson and the Blue Jays were not far apart when arbitration figures were exchanged on Friday. The reigning AL MVP asked for $11.8 million while the Blue Jays offered the 30-year-old $11.35 million. Coming off a season in which he hit\u00a0.297\/.371\/.568 with 41 home runs, a league-best 123 RBI and an MLB-best 122 runs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,988,501,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-10625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-josh-donaldson","tag-mlb","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625","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=10625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10627,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625\/revisions\/10627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10625"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}