{"id":5316,"date":"2011-02-12T21:11:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T02:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=5316"},"modified":"2011-02-12T21:16:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T02:16:59","slug":"mlb-updates-the-texas-rangers-avoids-arbitration-signs-their-al-mvp-josh-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=5316","title":{"rendered":"MLB UPDATES: THE TEXAS RANGERS AVOIDS ARBITRATION, SIGNS THEIR AL MVP, JOSH HAMILTON."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JOSH HAMILTON, WHO HAD A LEAGUE LEADING .359 BATTING AVERAGE, 32 HOME RUNS, AND 100 RBI&#8217;S, WHICH INCLUDED MISSING A MONTH WITH A RIB INJURY, HAS SIGNED A 2YR $24,000,000.00\u00a0 DEAL TO KEEP HIM IN THE RANGERS STABLE FOR THE NEXT 2 YEARS. THE DEAL INCLUDES: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. $3,000,000.00 SIGNING BONUS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>B. 1ST YEAR\u00a0 SALARY OF, $7.250,000.00.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>C. 2ND YEAR SALARY OF, $13.750,000.00.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HAMILTON HAS A CAREER HITTING AVERAGE OF, .331, A HOME RUN TOTAL OF, 93, AND A TOTAL OF 331\u00a0 RBI&#8217;S IN ONLY 468 GAMES PLAYED IN HIS 4 YR CAREER. HE WAS DRAFTED BY THE CINCINNATI REDS IN 2007, BUT REALLY ELEVATED HIS GAME AFTER THE TRADE TO THE TEXAS RANGERS. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE RANGERS ARE GEARING UP FOR ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL RUN AT THE AMERICAN PENNANT, AND ALSO A CHANCE TO RE-VISIT THE WORLD SERIES, AND POSSIBLY COME AWAY WINNERS IN 2011.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOSH HAMILTON, WHO HAD A LEAGUE LEADING .359 BATTING AVERAGE, 32 HOME RUNS, AND 100 RBI&#8217;S, WHICH INCLUDED MISSING A MONTH WITH A RIB INJURY, HAS SIGNED A 2YR $24,000,000.00\u00a0 DEAL TO KEEP HIM IN THE RANGERS STABLE FOR THE NEXT 2 YEARS. THE DEAL INCLUDES: A. $3,000,000.00 SIGNING BONUS. B. 1ST YEAR\u00a0 SALARY OF, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,107,14,1,7,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-mlb-sports-news","category-most-commented","category-news","category-sports","category-us","category-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}