{"id":164865,"date":"2019-02-14T16:16:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T22:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=164865"},"modified":"2019-02-14T16:16:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T22:16:23","slug":"kepler-polanco-twins-agree-to-5-year-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=164865","title":{"rendered":"Kepler, Polanco, Twins agree to 5 year contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-92812\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MinnesotaTwinsLogo-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MinnesotaTwinsLogo-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MinnesotaTwinsLogo-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MinnesotaTwinsLogo-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MinnesotaTwinsLogo.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Minneapolis\u00a0 (AP) Two people with direct knowledge of the deals tell The Associated Press that the Minnesota Twins have agreed to five-year contracts with right fielder Max Kepler and shortstop Jorge Polanco. The Twins scheduled a news conference for Friday. Kepler&#8217;s contract is worth $35 million and includes a $10 million club option for 2024 with a $1 million buyout. Polanco&#8217;s deal is valued at $25.75 million and has a 2024 option that could become guaranteed as well as a 2025 club option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis\u00a0 (AP) Two people with direct knowledge of the deals tell The Associated Press that the Minnesota Twins have agreed to five-year contracts with right fielder Max Kepler and shortstop Jorge Polanco. The Twins scheduled a news conference for Friday. Kepler&#8217;s contract is worth $35 million and includes a $10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164866,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164865\/revisions\/164866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}