{"id":1304425,"date":"2019-02-27T10:12:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=449259"},"modified":"2019-02-27T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:12:06","slug":"nolan-arenado-agrees-to-record-8-year-260-million-contract-with-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/nolan-arenado-agrees-to-record-8-year-260-million-contract-with-rockies\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan Arenado agrees to record 8-year, $260 million contract with Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Nolan Arenado is inducted into the hallowed halls of Cooperstown someday, he will likely go in wearing a Rockies cap.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old third baseman, a six-time Gold Glove winner, four-time all-star and perennial National League MVP candidate, agreed to an eight-year, $260 million contract with Colorado on Tuesday that could keep him in a Rockies uniform through 2026. The Rockies have scheduled a press conference at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at their spring training complex to announce the deal.<\/p>\n

Arenado’s contract includes an opt-out clause after three seasons that would enable him to become a free agent after the 2021 season.<\/p>\n

Arenado, who was scheduled to become a free agent after the current season, was in line to make $26 million for a contract he signed just before spring training to avoid salary arbitration.\u00a0 The new deal eliminates this year’s contract.\u00a0Arenado’s will now make an average annual salary of $32.5 million \u2014 a new record for a position player \u2014 topping Miguel Cabrera’s $31 million per year.<\/p>\n

via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If Nolan Arenado is inducted into the hallowed halls of Cooperstown someday, he will likely go in wearing a Rockies cap. The 27-year-old third baseman, a six-time Gold Glove winner, four-time all-star and perennial National League MVP candidate, agreed to an eight-year, $260 million contract with Colorado on Tuesday that could keep him in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1304425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 03:41:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}