{"id":186907,"date":"2019-12-11T10:42:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=186907"},"modified":"2019-12-11T13:17:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T19:17:55","slug":"gerrit-cole-signs-lucrative-yankee-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=186907","title":{"rendered":"Gerrit Cole signs lucrative Yankee contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>(AP)\u00a0 Gerrit Cole quickly ended Stephen Strasburg’s tenure as baseball’s highest-paid pitcher. Cole has agreed to a $324 million, nine-year contract with the New York Yankees, according to a person familiar with the agreement.<\/p>\n

Cole’s deal establishes marks for pitchers in total dollars. It tops the $245 million, seven-year contract Stephen Strasburg finalized a day earlier to remain with the World Series champion Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n

Its $36 million average is a record for any player and beats the $35.5 million in outfielder Mike Trout’s $426.5 million, 12-year deal with the Los Angeles Angels that started last season. Agent Scott Boras negotiated the deals for Cole and Strasburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  (AP)\u00a0 Gerrit Cole quickly ended Stephen Strasburg’s tenure as baseball’s highest-paid pitcher. Cole has agreed to a $324 million, nine-year contract with the New York Yankees, according to a person familiar with the agreement. Cole’s deal establishes marks for pitchers in total dollars. It tops the $245 million, seven-year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186907","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\/186907","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=186907"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186929,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186907\/revisions\/186929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/186926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}