{"id":41161,"date":"2014-03-14T14:32:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=41161"},"modified":"2014-03-14T14:33:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:33:53","slug":"perkins-twins-ink-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=41161","title":{"rendered":"Perkins, Twins, Ink Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/perkinsglen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41162\" alt=\"perkinsglen\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/perkinsglen.jpg\" width=\"68\" height=\"102\" \/><\/a>FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) &#8211; Closer Glen Perkins and the Minnesota Twins have agreed to a four-year contract that guarantees the pitcher $22,175,000.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Perkins had been due $4,975,000 this year and $3.75 million in 2015 under his previous deal, which included a $4.5 million team option for 2016 with a $300,000 buyout.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His new contract calls for him to earn $4,025,000 this year, $4.65 million in 2015, $6.3 million in 2016 and $6.5 million in 2017. The Twins have a $6.5 million option for 2018 with a $700,000 buyout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) &#8211; Closer Glen Perkins and the Minnesota Twins have agreed to a four-year contract that guarantees the pitcher $22,175,000. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Perkins had been due $4,975,000 this year and $3.75 million in 2015 under his previous deal, which included a $4.5 million team option for 2016 [&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-41161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41161","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=41161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41166,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41161\/revisions\/41166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}