{"id":2803,"date":"2013-07-24T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/red-sox-pedroia-finalize-contract-extension\/"},"modified":"2013-10-30T21:50:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T21:50:08","slug":"red-sox-pedroia-finalize-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/red-sox-pedroia-finalize-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox, Pedroia finalize contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Boston Red Sox signed infielder Dustin Pedroia to an eight-year contract beginning in 2014 and continuing through the 2021 season.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is reportedly worth $110 million. Pedroia had been signed for 2014 at $10 million under his old deal.<\/p>\n<p>Pedroia is batting .303 with six homers and 58 RBI through 102 games this year. He has a career batting average of .303 with 96 homers and 467 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dustin&#8217;s numbers are great, but they don&#8217;t tell you how committed he is to winning,&#8221; said Red Sox manager John Farrell. &#8220;Watch him every day, on the field and in the clubhouse, and you see exceptional skill and passion. His teammates will tell you: he&#8217;s a winner, a winner who loves the Red Sox and a winner who loves Boston.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was named the 2007 Rookie of Year after hitting .317 with eight homers and 50 RBI in his first full season in the league. He won the AL MVP Award a year later thanks to a career-best .326 average with 17 homers and 83 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Boston Red Sox signed infielder Dustin Pedroia to an eight-year contract beginning in 2014 and continuing through the 2021 season. The deal is reportedly worth $110 million. Pedroia had been signed for 2014 at $10 million under his old deal. Pedroia is batting .303 with six homers and 58 [&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":[177,188,189],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-red-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","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=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}