{"id":2390,"date":"2013-07-13T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-give-altuve-4-year-extension\/"},"modified":"2013-10-30T21:38:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T21:38:57","slug":"astros-give-altuve-4-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-give-altuve-4-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros give Altuve 4-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Houston Astros have locked up a key piece in their rebuilding project, signing second baseman Jose Altuve to a four-year contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>The extension begins next year and includes club options for 2018 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jose has quickly become the face of the franchise in less than two years, and we are excited to keep him here for many years to come,&#8221; Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow said in a statement Saturday. &#8220;He provides leadership both on and off the field and has become a big part of the Houston sports community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Altuve, 23, is batting .280 with three homers and 28 RBI through 86 games this season. The 5-foot-5 Venezuelan was an All-Star and named the team MVP in 2012 after hitting .290 with seven homers, 33 stolen bases, 34 doubles and 37 RBI over 147 games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This contract is consistent with our strategy of developing and retaining the best young talent in baseball,&#8221; said Astros owner and chairman Jim Crane in a statement. &#8220;All along, I&#8217;ve maintained that we will make the necessary investments to create a winning team long-term and this is an important step in that direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Altuve made his major league debut with the Astros in 2011, batting at a .276 clip in 57 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Houston Astros have locked up a key piece in their rebuilding project, signing second baseman Jose Altuve to a four-year contract extension. The extension begins next year and includes club options for 2018 and 2019. &#8220;Jose has quickly become the face of the franchise in less than two [&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":[44,43,42],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-astros","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","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=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}