{"id":17151,"date":"2014-04-05T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rays-sign-escobar-to-two-year-extension\/"},"modified":"2014-04-05T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T18:31:00","slug":"rays-sign-escobar-to-two-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rays-sign-escobar-to-two-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays sign Escobar to two-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Rays signed shortstop Yunel Escobar to a two-year, $13 million contract extension on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal includes a club option for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yunel has been a tremendous addition to our infield and was a critical part of our success last year,&#8221; said executive vice president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman. &#8220;He brings enthusiasm and energy to our group on a daily basis to go along with his abilities on the field. We are excited to have the opportunity to extend his time in our uniform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Escobar, 31, is in his second year with the Rays, who acquired him in a trade with Miami on Dec. 4, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, the Cuba native batted .256 with nine homers and 56 RBI over a career-high 153 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Rays signed shortstop Yunel Escobar to a two-year, $13 million contract extension on Saturday. The deal includes a club option for 2017. &#8220;Yunel has been a tremendous addition to our infield and was a critical part of our success last year,&#8221; said executive vice president of baseball [&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":[191,67,190],"class_list":["post-17151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-rays","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17151","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=17151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}