{"id":38107,"date":"2025-04-07T12:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/blue-jays-reportedly-sign-vladimir-guerrero-jr-to-500m-14-year-contract\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T12:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:16:20","slug":"blue-jays-reportedly-sign-vladimir-guerrero-jr-to-500m-14-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/blue-jays-reportedly-sign-vladimir-guerrero-jr-to-500m-14-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays reportedly sign Vladimir Guerrero Jr to $500m, 14-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>First baseman had been expected to become free agent<\/li>\n<li>26-year-old\u2019s deal is third-largest in MLB history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vladimir Guerrero Jr and the Toronto Blue Jays agreed to a $500m, 14-year contract that starts in 2026, a person familiar with the negotiations told the Associated Press, a deal that removes what would have been the biggest star from next offseason\u2019s free-agent market. Guerrero\u2019s deal does not include any deferred money, the AP source said.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero agreed in January to a $28.5m, one-year contract that avoided arbitration and the four-time All-Star first baseman had said he wouldn\u2019t negotiate after he reported to spring training in mid-February. Still, talks with his agent continued well into the regular season.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/07\/blue-jays-vladimir-guerrero-jr-contract\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First baseman had been expected to become free agent 26-year-old\u2019s deal is third-largest in MLB history Vladimir Guerrero Jr and the Toronto Blue Jays agreed to a $500m, 14-year contract that starts in 2026, a person familiar with the negotiations told the Associated Press, a deal that removes what would have been the biggest star &#8230; <a title=\"Blue Jays reportedly sign Vladimir Guerrero Jr to $500m, 14-year contract\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/blue-jays-reportedly-sign-vladimir-guerrero-jr-to-500m-14-year-contract\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Blue Jays reportedly sign Vladimir Guerrero Jr to $500m, 14-year contract\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}