{"id":1851,"date":"2013-04-01T10:51:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T14:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2013-04-01T10:51:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T14:51:30","slug":"rangers-near-deal-with-shortstop-elvis-andrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/04\/01\/rangers-near-deal-with-shortstop-elvis-andrus\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers near deal with shortstop Elvis Andrus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/elvisandrus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1480\" alt=\"elvisandrus\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/elvisandrus.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/elvisandrus.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/elvisandrus-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Texas Rangers and shortstop Elvis Andrus are close to a contract extension. A new deal could be for eight years and may become official once the Rangers return to Arlington on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Andrus, 24, is currently in the second year of a three-year deal worth $14.4 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GETTING INK: <\/strong><a title=\"Elvis Andrus forced out of lineup by new tattoo\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/02\/28\/elvis-andrus-forced-out-of-lineup-by-new-tattoo\/\">Elvis Andrus honors father with new tattoo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new deal for Andrus would solidify the Rangers up the middle as Ian Kinsler is signed though 2017 with an option for 2018. Top ranked prospect Jurickson Profar is currently playing at Triple-A Round Rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers and shortstop Elvis Andrus are close to a contract extension. A new deal could be for eight years and may become official once the Rangers return to Arlington on Thursday. Andrus, 24, is currently in the second year of a three-year deal worth $14.4 million. GETTING INK: Elvis Andrus honors father with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[263,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-elvis-andrus","9":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","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=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}