{"id":11866,"date":"2019-12-11T22:59:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T03:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11866"},"modified":"2019-12-11T22:59:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T03:59:10","slug":"anthony-rendon-signs-mega-deal-with-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2019\/12\/11\/anthony-rendon-signs-mega-deal-with-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Rendon signs mega deal with Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11868\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/anthonyrendon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/anthonyrendon.jpg 735w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/anthonyrendon-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/anthonyrendon-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/anthonyrendon-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Angels have signed third baseman Anthony Rendon to a seven-year deal worth $245 million according to Jon Heyman.<\/p>\n<p>Rendon, 29, is coming off the best season of his career posting a WAR of 6.3 while having career highs with a .319\/.412\/.598 line and 34 homers and a league best 126 RBI. He finished third in National League MVP voting and earned his first trip to the All-Star game and the second silver slugger award of his career.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Angel in the infield.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Rendon reportedly agrees to 7-year, $245M deal with Los Angeles, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeyman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JonHeyman<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zFzKrcA6BW\">pic.twitter.com\/zFzKrcA6BW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1204969325192454144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Nationals began the off-season knowing it was likely that Rendon or Stephen Strasburg would leave via free agency. In a bit of irony Strasburg&#8217;s deal to return to the Nationals was also for seven-years and $245 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Angels have signed third baseman Anthony Rendon to a seven-year deal worth $245 million according to Jon Heyman. Rendon, 29, is coming off the best season of his career posting a WAR of 6.3 while having career highs with a .319\/.412\/.598 line and 34 homers and a league best 126 RBI. He finished third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[1145,503,114,501,212,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-anthony-rendon","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-los-angeles-angels","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-stephen-strasburg","13":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11866","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=11866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11870,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11866\/revisions\/11870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11866"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}