{"id":422,"date":"2012-11-02T19:57:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T23:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=422"},"modified":"2012-11-02T19:57:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T23:57:06","slug":"david-ortiz-and-red-sox-agree-to-two-year-deal-worth-26-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/11\/02\/david-ortiz-and-red-sox-agree-to-two-year-deal-worth-26-million\/","title":{"rendered":"David Ortiz and Red Sox agree to two year deal worth $26 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-423\" title=\"davidortiz\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/11\/davidortiz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/11\/davidortiz.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/11\/davidortiz-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>David Ortiz and the Boston Red Sox have agreed on a new deal. Under terms of the new deal Ortiz will receive $26 million over the next two seasons. Sam McAdam of Comcast Sports Net was one of the first to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csnne.com\/baseball-boston-redsox\/redsox-talk\/Update-Ortiz-signs-two-year-deal-with-Re?blockID=797075&amp;feedID=3352\">break news<\/a> of the completed deal.<\/p>\n<p>It was never a question to whether Ortiz would return to Boston. The 36-year-old had a .318\/.415\/.611 line with 21 home runs and 60 RBI in 90 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz has been a member of the Red Sox since 2003. This is the latest off season for the Red Sox who figure to be relatively busy trying to rebuild from a disappointing 69-93 record in 2012. John Farrell was <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/10\/21\/farrell-headed-to-boston-in-exchange-for-aviles\/\">recently<\/a> hired as manager of the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Ortiz and the Boston Red Sox have agreed on a new deal. Under terms of the new deal Ortiz will receive $26 million over the next two seasons. Sam McAdam of Comcast Sports Net was one of the first to break news of the completed deal. It was never a question to whether Ortiz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[26],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-david-ortiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}