{"id":5119,"date":"2013-11-01T13:43:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T17:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2013-11-01T13:50:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T17:50:55","slug":"yankees-re-sign-derek-jeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/11\/01\/yankees-re-sign-derek-jeter\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees re-sign Derek Jeter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5120\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5120\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/derekjeter.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/derekjeter.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/derekjeter-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That was fast. The New York Yankees and shortstop Derek Jeter have already agreed on a one-year deal for the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>The move is hardly a surprise as Jeter has been the face of the Yankees since arriving in the majors with them in 1995. Jeter&#8217;s player option for the 2014 season was only $9.5 million so the Yankees are actually giving him a bit of a raise in order to avoid the PR nightmare that would follow if \u00a0Jeter attempted to hit the free agent market.<\/p>\n<p>Andy McCulloguh of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/yankees\/index.ssf\/2013\/11\/yankees_re-sign_derek_jeter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Star Ledger<\/a> says the raise is merely an accounting move which will send the money to Jeter rather then have his current deal count against the luxury tax.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>The accounting appears to help the Yankees in reaching their goal of reducing the payroll beneath the $189 million luxury-tax threshold. Had Jeter accepted his option, the average annual value of his contract would have been about $14 million, the figure that counts against the luxury tax. Now that figure is $2 million less.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jeter, 39, played in just 17 games for the Yankees in 2013 hitting a mere .190\/.288\/.254 with a home run, seven RBI and eight runs scored.<\/p>\n<p><em>Too bad the Yankees could not offer the same deal to Mariano Rivera.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was fast. The New York Yankees and shortstop Derek Jeter have already agreed on a one-year deal for the 2014 season. The move is hardly a surprise as Jeter has been the face of the Yankees since arriving in the majors with them in 1995. Jeter&#8217;s player option for the 2014 season was only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119","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=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}