{"id":32638,"date":"2019-02-20T15:24:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32638"},"modified":"2019-02-20T15:24:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:24:55","slug":"record-breaking-300m-baseball-deal-agreed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32638","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking $300m baseball deal &#8216;agreed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Manny Machado, who spent the 2018 Major League Baseball (MLB) season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, has agreed a record-breaking $300 million deal with the San Diego Padres, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/manny-machado-deal-with-padres\/c-304157722?tid=282421090\" target=\"_blank\">according to reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">If confirmed, the franchise&#8217;s 10-year agreement with the 26-year-old would be the most expensive contract ever signed by a free agent in American sports history, with Machado having gone unsigned since the end of last season. It would surpass the decade-long $275 million contract that Alex Rodriguez signed in December 2007.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The deal, which is said to be dependent on the outcome of a medical, would also place as the third highest in sporting history for any individual sports contract, behind fellow baseball player Giancarlo Stanton&#8217;s $325 million deal with the Miami Marlins in 2014 and boxer Canelo Alvarez&#8217;s $365 million arrangement with sports broadcaster DAZN.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Manny Machado, who spent the 2018 Major League Baseball (MLB) season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, has agreed a record-breaking $300 million deal with the San Diego Padres, according to reports.If confirmed, the franchise&#8217;s 10-year agreement with the 26-year-old would be the most expensive contract ever signed by a free agent in American sports history,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}