{"id":25915,"date":"2014-11-17T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-marlins-and-stanton-reach-long-term-agreement\/"},"modified":"2014-11-19T06:40:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T06:40:16","slug":"report-marlins-and-stanton-reach-long-term-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-marlins-and-stanton-reach-long-term-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Marlins and Stanton reach long-term agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Miami Marlins and Giancarlo Stanton reportedly have a long-term agreement in place.<\/p>\n<p>According to CBSSports.com, the 25-year-old outfielder will sign a 13-year, $325 million contract &#8212; the largest in North American sports history. The mega-deal, which the report said the Marlins will officially announce Wednesday morning, also includes an opt-out clause after six years as well as a full no-trade provision.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation grew over the weekend that the two sides were working on the pact and Stanton was in Miami on Saturday night for the Florida State-Miami football game.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins, however, said an agreement was not imminent.<\/p>\n<p>Stanton finished as the runner-up to Clayton Kershaw for NL MVP honors after a stellar 2014 season that included an NL-best 37 homers and a career-high 105 runs batted in.<\/p>\n<p>His season was cut short in September after being hit in the face by a pitch from Milwaukee&#8217;s Mike Fiers. Stanton missed the final 2 1\/2 weeks of the season after suffering multiple facial fractures, dental damage and lacerations that required stitches.<\/p>\n<p>A two-time All-Star, Stanton has 154 homers and 399 RBI with a career .271 batting average in 634 games since making his big league debut with the Marlins in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Miami Marlins and Giancarlo Stanton reportedly have a long-term agreement in place. According to CBSSports.com, the 25-year-old outfielder will sign a 13-year, $325 million contract &#8212; the largest in North American sports history. The mega-deal, which the report said the Marlins will officially announce Wednesday morning, also includes an opt-out clause after [&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":[197,196,198],"class_list":["post-25915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-florida","tag-florida-marlins","tag-marlins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25915","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=25915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25998,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25915\/revisions\/25998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}