{"id":1803,"date":"2013-03-29T14:43:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2013-03-29T14:43:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:43:01","slug":"justin-verlander-signs-extension-with-detroit-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/03\/29\/justin-verlander-signs-extension-with-detroit-tigers\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Verlander signs extension with Detroit Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/justinverlander.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1450\" alt=\"justinverlander\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/justinverlander.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/justinverlander.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/justinverlander-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Detroit Tigers ace starting pitcher Justin Verlander signed a five-year extension on Friday that could be worth up to $202 million through 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Verlander&#8217;s five year deal is worth $140 million which will keep him in Detroit through 2019. The contract also includes a one-year vesting agreement for 2020 that is worth $22 million.<\/p>\n<p>Combined with the 40 million Verlander is still owed over the next two seasons, it could bring his total to $220 million by 2020. Verlander will be 37 by this time.<\/p>\n<p>Contract numbers were first reported by Buster Olney of ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Back in February, Verlander said he was interested in becoming baseballs first $200 million dollar player, and that is just what he did here.<\/p>\n<p>Verlander on Twitter announced his excitement for the new deal by saying, \u201c I love this city &amp; the fans \u2013 couldn\u2019t be more excited to spend my career here! We&#8217;re going to bring a World Series to Detroit!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Verlander is a five-time all star. He won the AL Rookie of the Year in 2006, and the CY Young and MVP in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he went 17-8 with a 2.64 ERA. 1.06 WHIP with 239 strikeouts in 238 1\/3 innings pitched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Tigers ace starting pitcher Justin Verlander signed a five-year extension on Friday that could be worth up to $202 million through 2020. Verlander&#8217;s five year deal is worth $140 million which will keep him in Detroit through 2019. The contract also includes a one-year vesting agreement for 2020 that is worth $22 million. Combined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[211],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-justin-verlander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}