{"id":4989,"date":"2013-10-17T21:17:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T01:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4989"},"modified":"2013-10-18T00:15:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T04:15:08","slug":"report-white-sox-strike-deal-with-jose-abreu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/10\/17\/report-white-sox-strike-deal-with-jose-abreu\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: White Sox strike deal with Jose Abreu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4396\" alt=\"joseabreu\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/joseabreu.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/joseabreu.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/joseabreu-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/joseabreu-480x300.jpg 480w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/joseabreu-210x130.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jose Abreu and the Chicago White Sox have reportedly reached an agreement on a deal.<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox will play the Cuban first baseman $68 million over the next six years. With an $11.33 million annual salary this is the largest deal ever for a Cuban player nearly doubling the deal that Yasiel Puig signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Abreu\u2019s average annual value of $11.33M will be nearly twice that of Puig\u2019s $6M. Cuban first baseman represented by Praver-Shapiro.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/390997064693190657\">October 18, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abreu, 26, is expected to be the White Sox Opening Day first baseman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Abreu and the Chicago White Sox have reportedly reached an agreement on a deal. The White Sox will play the Cuban first baseman $68 million over the next six years. With an $11.33 million annual salary this is the largest deal ever for a Cuban player nearly doubling the deal that Yasiel Puig signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[181,503,442,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-4989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-front","tag-jose-abreu","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989","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=4989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4989"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}