{"id":5700,"date":"2013-12-18T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2013-12-18T12:42:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:42:03","slug":"report-shin-soo-choo-rejected-yankees-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/18\/report-shin-soo-choo-rejected-yankees-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Shin-Soo Choo rejected Yankees offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5702\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5702\" alt=\"Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/soochoo.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/soochoo.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/soochoo-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Carlos Beltran may not of been the New York Yankees top choice as\u00a0Shin-Soo Choo reportedly rejected a seven-year,\u00a0$140 million contract offer from the Yankee&#8217;s according to <a href=\"target=&quot;_blank&quot;\">Jeff Passan <\/a>of Yahoo Sports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Choo&#8217;s agent Scott Boras\u00a0countered that he was looking for &#8220;Ellsbury money, or $153 million over seven years&#8221; Jacob\u00a0Ellsbury was signed to a seven-year, $148 million contract earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees pulled their offer and\u00a0signed Carlos Beltran to a three-year, $45 million deal instead.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say that there are &#8220;multiple offers&#8221; out in the market for Shoo, but it is likely that he will stay away from the market while talks shift to\u00a0Masahiro Tanaka. Once Tanaka signs, there will surely be a &#8220;loser&#8221; that will give up &#8220;Ellsbury money&#8221; to sign Choo.<\/p>\n<p>Choo, 31, hit .285\/.423\/.462 with 21 home runs and 20 stolen bases in 154 games this past season for the Reds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Beltran may not of been the New York Yankees top choice as\u00a0Shin-Soo Choo reportedly rejected a seven-year,\u00a0$140 million contract offer from the Yankee&#8217;s according to Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports. According to the report, Choo&#8217;s agent Scott Boras\u00a0countered that he was looking for &#8220;Ellsbury money, or $153 million over seven years&#8221; Jacob\u00a0Ellsbury was signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[579,578,43],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-5700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-reds","9":"tag-shin-soo-choo","10":"tag-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700","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=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}