{"id":17446,"date":"2014-04-14T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/padres-give-gyorko-six-year-extension\/"},"modified":"2014-04-23T14:50:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T14:50:10","slug":"padres-give-gyorko-six-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/padres-give-gyorko-six-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres give Gyorko six-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The San Diego Padres have agreed on a six- year extension with second baseman Jedd Gyorko.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but multiple sources say the pact is worth $35 million with an option for a seventh year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jedd is a homegrown player in his fifth season with the Padres organization and has been a consistent performer every step of the way,&#8221; Padres general manager Josh Byrnes said. &#8220;He has shown us a real commitment to this organization and to the city of San Diego.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a rookie last season, Gyorko hit .249 and led the team with 23 homers and 63 RBI despite missing 30 games with a groin injury. San Diego selected Gyorko in the second round of the 2010 amateur draft out of West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>His 23 home runs were the third most in Major League history by a rookie second baseman, behind only Dan Uggla, who hit 27 for the Marlins in 2006 and Joe Gordon, who hit 25 for the Yankees in 1938.<\/p>\n<p>In 43 at-bats this season, Gyorko is hitting just .167 with a homer and seven RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The San Diego Padres have agreed on a six- year extension with second baseman Jedd Gyorko. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but multiple sources say the pact is worth $35 million with an option for a seventh year. &#8220;Jedd is a homegrown player in his fifth season with [&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":[219,85,218],"class_list":["post-17446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-padres","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17446","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=17446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17480,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17446\/revisions\/17480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}