Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) – The Chicago White Sox have agreed to terms on a six-year, $68-million contract with free agent Cuban first baseman Jose Abreu.<\/p>\n
Abreu will receive a $10-million signing bonus and be paid $7 million in 2014 and 2015, $10 million in 2016, $10.5 million in 2017, $11.5 million in 2018 and $12 million in 2019.<\/p>\n
Abreu’s power was introduced to the masses during the 2013 World Baseball Classic when he batted .360 with three homers, nine RBI and six runs scored over six games.<\/p>\n
“We are very excited to add a talent like Jose to our roster for the next several years,” said Rick Hahn, White Sox senior vice president\/general manager. “His skill set should translate very well to our ballpark, and we expect him to be a part of successful White Sox teams throughout his time in Chicago.”<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old has played the last nine seasons for Cienfuegos in Serie Nacional (Cuban National Series), Cuba’s top-level league. The 6-foot-3, 255- pound Abreu made his debut with the team in 2004 at age 17.<\/p>\n
Including the postseason, Abreu has hit .392 with 133 home runs, 337 RBI and 311 runs scored 346 games over the last four seasons.<\/p>\n
In his final season with Cienfuegos, Abreu hit .316 with 19 home runs and 60 RBI over 83 games. He also posted a .479 on-base and .604 slugging percentage last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) – The Chicago White Sox have agreed to terms on a six-year, $68-million contract with free agent Cuban first baseman Jose Abreu. Abreu will receive a $10-million signing bonus and be paid $7 million in 2014 and 2015, $10 million in 2016, $10.5 million in 2017, $11.5 million in 2018 and $12 […]<\/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":[30,112,113],"class_list":["post-7035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035","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=7035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}