{"id":16112,"date":"2014-03-14T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/twins-sign-perkins-to-extension-through-2017\/"},"modified":"2014-03-14T23:00:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T23:00:25","slug":"twins-sign-perkins-to-extension-through-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/twins-sign-perkins-to-extension-through-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins sign Perkins to extension through 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Myers, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Minnesota Twins signed closer Glen Perkins to a four-year contract extension, covering the 2014-17 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Perkins, who was under contract through 2015, will earn $4.025 million in 2014, $4.65 million in 2015, $6.3 million in 2016 and $6.5 million in 2017. The deal also includes a $6.5 million club option for the 2018 season.<\/p>\n<p>Perkins went 2-0 with a 2.30 ERA and 36 saves in 61 appearances last season. He was named to his first All-Star Game in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Originally selected by the Twins in the first round of the 2004 First-Year Player Draft out of the University of Minnesota, Perkins has a career record of 28-17 with a 3.89 ERA and 54 saves in 276 games with the Twins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Myers, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Minnesota Twins signed closer Glen Perkins to a four-year contract extension, covering the 2014-17 seasons. Perkins, who was under contract through 2015, will earn $4.025 million in 2014, $4.65 million in 2015, $6.3 million in 2016 and $6.5 million in 2017. The deal also includes a $6.5 million club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[72,214,215],"class_list":["post-16112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16142,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112\/revisions\/16142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}