{"id":267518,"date":"2025-11-06T22:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267518\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:54:07","slug":"trevor-story-declines-to-opt-out-keeps-contract-with-the-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267518\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Story declines to opt out, keeps contract with the Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortstop Trevor Story declined to exercise his right to opt out of his contract and is remaining with the Boston Red Sox. Story agreed to a $140 million,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BOSTON(AP) \u2014 Shortstop Trevor Story declined to exercise his right to opt out of his contract and is remaining with the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/0.0.0.3\/23\/22.%20$140,000,000\/6.%202022-2027%20opt%202028.%20$20,000,000%20-%202022%20$20,000,000%20-%202023%20$22,500,000%20-%202024%20$22,500,000%20-%202025%20$25,000,000%20-%202026%20$25,000,000%20-%202027%20Club%20option%202028%20for%20$25,000,000%20or%20$5,000,000%20buyout.%20Player%20may%20opt%20out%20of%20contract%20after%202025.\" rel=\"nofollow\">Story agreed to a $140 million, six-year deal with Boston before the 2022 season<\/a> and could have opted out, giving up $55 million in guaranteed money.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he kept $25 million salaries for 2026 and \u201927, and a $25 million team option for 2028 with a $5 million buyout.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time All-Star shortstop, who turns 33 on Nov. 15, played in 157 games, his most since 2018, and hit .263 with 25 homers and 96 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shortstop Trevor Story declined to exercise his right to opt out of his contract and is remaining with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-267518","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\/267518","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=267518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}