{"id":36423,"date":"2019-03-20T14:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36423"},"modified":"2019-03-20T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:22:15","slug":"baseball-star-to-agree-richest-deal-in-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36423","title":{"rendered":"Baseball star to agree richest deal in sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Mike Trout, one of the most sought-after baseball players of his generation, looks set to agree to a 12-year contract extension with the Los Angeles Angels worth a stunning $430 million, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The deal, should it be confirmed, would net the outfielder $36 million a year and be the most expensive contract in Major League Baseball (MLB) history, as well as the biggest in sports. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">It would trump the $330 million 13-year deal the Philadelphia Phillies and Bryce Harper agreed last month and boxer Canelo Alvarez&#8217;s $365 million 11-fight arrangement with sports broadcaster DAZN. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Mike Trout, one of the most sought-after baseball players of his generation, looks set to agree to a 12-year contract extension with the Los Angeles Angels worth a stunning $430 million, according to multiple reports.The deal, should it be confirmed, would net the outfielder $36 million a year and be the most expensive contract in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36423","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=36423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}