{"id":5752,"date":"2013-12-21T13:13:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T18:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5752"},"modified":"2013-12-21T13:17:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T18:17:42","slug":"rangers-land-shin-soo-choo-on-seven-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/21\/rangers-land-shin-soo-choo-on-seven-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers land Shin-Soo Choo on seven-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/20131221-130612.jpg\" alt=\"20131221-130612.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nThe Texas Rangers have signed outfielder Shin-Soo Choo to a seven-year deal.  <\/p>\n<p>Choo, 31, had reportedly turned down an offer of $140 million on a seven-year deal from the New York Yankees.  He was said be seeking &#8220;Jacoby Ellsbuy money&#8221; referring to the outfielder who landed a seven-year deal worth $148 million from the Yankees. <\/p>\n<p>The Yankees turned their focus and signed Carlos Beltran to a three-year deal. <\/p>\n<p>Choo will fall short of Ellsbury money as his new deal is for seven-years and $130 million reports Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. Though it&#8217;s worth noting he will save a substantial amount in taxes in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers have signed outfielder Shin-Soo Choo to a seven-year deal. Choo, 31, had reportedly turned down an offer of $140 million on a seven-year deal from the New York Yankees. He was said be seeking &#8220;Jacoby Ellsbuy money&#8221; referring to the outfielder who landed a seven-year deal worth $148 million from the Yankees. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752","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=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}