{"id":261368,"date":"2025-11-04T06:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/261368\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T06:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:15:12","slug":"thairo-estradas-7m-option-for-2026-declined-by-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/261368\/","title":{"rendered":"Thairo Estrada&#8217;s $7M option for 2026 declined by Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"0b475684-88fe-1836-22a1-41a2e09d98a0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36485\/thairo-estrada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thairo Estrada<\/a>&#8216;s $7 million mutual option for 2026 was declined Monday by the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f3f1ba71-05f1-a49a-0363-3b1d8e0db4cf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/col\/colorado-rockies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a>, triggering a $750,000 buyout to the second baseman, who would be arbitration eligible if the team tenders him a contract.<\/p>\n<p>Estrada agreed in January to a deal that called for a $3.25 million salary in 2025 and guaranteed $4 million.<\/p>\n<p>A 29-year-old veteran of parts of seven major league seasons, Estrada hit .253 with three homers and 21 RBIs in 39 games.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t make his season debut until May 30 after his right wrist was fractured when he was hit by a 97.1 mph pitch from Texas&#8217; <a data-player-guid=\"fe944c6e-1244-366a-be6f-a1b3872277b3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4414525\/kumar-rocker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kumar Rocker<\/a> on March 20. He was sidelined between July 7 and 25 by a strained right thumb and his season ended Aug. 5 when he strained his right hamstring while running out a double-play grounder against Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER &#8212; Thairo Estrada&#8216;s $7 million mutual option for 2026 was declined Monday by the Colorado Rockies, triggering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-261368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}