{"id":2411,"date":"2012-08-29T09:29:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T15:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2012-08-28T19:49:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T01:49:50","slug":"60-million-dollar-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/60-million-dollar-man\/","title":{"rendered":"60 Million Dollar Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Starlin+Castro+Chicago+Cubs+v+San+Diego+Padres+2sR4jFdXnUpl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2412\" title=\"Starlin+Castro+Chicago+Cubs+v+San+Diego+Padres+2sR4jFdXnUpl\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Starlin+Castro+Chicago+Cubs+v+San+Diego+Padres+2sR4jFdXnUpl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Starlin+Castro+Chicago+Cubs+v+San+Diego+Padres+2sR4jFdXnUpl.jpg 594w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Starlin+Castro+Chicago+Cubs+v+San+Diego+Padres+2sR4jFdXnUpl-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a>The long-awaited contract extension for Starlin Castro will keep the young shortstop on the north side through the 2019 season, with a $16 million option for 2020. \u00a0The Cubs hope that they will get a deal by buying out Castro&#8217;s arbitration and first few free agent years. \u00a0They must also hope that a player who has had attention lapses in the past will not rest on his now very expensive laurels.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs have spent a lot of money the last few years to shed the long term contracts that helped bring them back-to-back division championships. \u00a0They still have been unable to move Alfonso Soriano&#8217;s albatross of a contract. \u00a0You can only hope that Castro continues to improve and does not become the latest in a string of disappointing long term deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited contract extension for Starlin Castro will keep the young shortstop on the north side through the 2019 season, with a $16 million option for 2020. \u00a0The Cubs hope that they will get a deal by buying out Castro&#8217;s arbitration and first few free agent years. \u00a0They must also hope that a player who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[130,120,619],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball","tag-alfonso-soriano","tag-cubs","tag-starlin-castro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions\/2413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}