{"id":167713,"date":"2019-03-19T14:31:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T19:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=167713"},"modified":"2019-03-19T14:31:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T19:31:30","slug":"trout-close-to-signing-record-deal-with-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=167713","title":{"rendered":"Trout close to signing record deal with Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-167715\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/TroutMike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" \/>(AP) A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press that Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels are close to finalizing a $432 million, 12-year contract that would shatter the record for the largest deal in North American sports history.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was disclosed Tuesday by a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the agreement had not been finalized and had not been announced.<\/p>\n<p>Trout would top the new $330 million, 12-year contract between Bryce Harper and the Philadelphia Phillies, and his $36 million average annual value would surpass Zack Greinke\u2019s $34.4 million in a six-year deal with Arizona that started in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Progress toward an agreement was first reported by ESPN (CSi-14).<\/p>\n<p>Trout\u2019s deal includes a signing bonus and would supersede the $144.5 million, six-year contract that had been set to pay him $66.5 million over the next two seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press that Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels are close to finalizing a $432 million, 12-year contract that would shatter the record for the largest deal in North American sports history. The deal was disclosed Tuesday by a person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167713","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=167713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167716,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167713\/revisions\/167716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}