Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) – The Minnesota Twins announced Wednesday that the team will not pick up its contract option on reliever Jared Burton for the 2015 season.<\/p>\n
Burton would have earned $3.6 million next season had the Twins exercised the option. Instead, he will receive a $200,000 buyout and become a free agent.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old right-hander has pitched in at least 64 games in each of the last three years for Minnesota, but had his ERA rise to 4.36 in 2014 after posting a 3.82 mark the previous season.<\/p>\n
Burton, who has also pitched for Cincinnati over an eight-year major league career, received a two-year extension from the Twins that included the club option in December of 2012. He earned the deal after going 3-2 with a 2.18 ERA and five saves over 64 appearances during the 2012 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) – The Minnesota Twins announced Wednesday that the team will not pick up its contract option on reliever Jared Burton for the 2015 season. Burton would have earned $3.6 million next season had the Twins exercised the option. Instead, he will receive a $200,000 buyout and become a free agent. The 33-year-old […]<\/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-24848","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\/24848","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=24848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}