{"id":16568,"date":"2014-03-23T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ortiz-red-sox-agree-to-deal\/"},"modified":"2014-03-23T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T17:58:00","slug":"ortiz-red-sox-agree-to-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ortiz-red-sox-agree-to-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ortiz, Red Sox agree to deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ft. Myers, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Boston Red Sox and reigning World Series MVP David Ortiz have finally agreed to a contract for the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Boston Globe, the new pact is worth $16 million.<\/p>\n<p>The jovial 38-year-old native of the Dominican Republic hit .309 with 30 home runs, 38 doubles and 103 RBI over 137 regular-season games for the AL East champions in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He followed up by collecting 18 hits in 51 at-bats during the postseason, including a scorching .688 average (11-for-16) with two homers and six RBI along with eight walks in a six-game triumph against the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>A nine-time All-Star selection with the BoSox, Ortiz is a lifetime .287 hitter who has launched 431 homers and collected 520 doubles while driving in 1,429 runs over his 17-year major-league career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ft. Myers, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Boston Red Sox and reigning World Series MVP David Ortiz have finally agreed to a contract for the 2014 season. According to the Boston Globe, the new pact is worth $16 million. The jovial 38-year-old native of the Dominican Republic hit .309 with 30 home runs, 38 doubles [&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":[177,188,189],"class_list":["post-16568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-red-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568","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=16568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}