{"id":131952,"date":"2025-09-09T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/131952\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:30:07","slug":"details-of-samuel-basallos-67m-8-year-deal-contract-with-the-baltimore-orioles-for-2026-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/131952\/","title":{"rendered":"Details of Samuel Basallo’s $67M, 8-year deal contract with the Baltimore Orioles for 2026-33"},"content":{"rendered":"

Signing bonus: $5 million, payable within 60 days of the contract\u2019s approval by Major League Baseball<\/p>\n

2026 salary: $1 million<\/p>\n

2027 salary: $1 million<\/p>\n

2028 salary: $1 million<\/p>\n

2029 salary: $4 million<\/p>\n

2030 salary: $7 million<\/p>\n

2031 salary: $11 million<\/p>\n

2032 salary: $15 million<\/p>\n

2033 salary: $15 million<\/p>\n

2034 club option: $18 million (or $7 million buyout)<\/p>\n

Salary Escalators<\/p>\n

Games started at catcher in 2031 would increase 2032-34 salaries:<\/p>\n

60 games: $250,000; 90 games: $125,000; 120 games: $125,000<\/p>\n

Games started at catcher in 2032 would increase 2033-34 salaries:<\/p>\n

60 games: $375,000; 90 games: $187,500; 120 games: $187,500<\/p>\n

Games started at catcher in 2033 would increase 2034 salary:<\/p>\n

60 games: $750,000; 90 games: $375,000; 120 games: $375,000<\/p>\n

2034 salary MVP escalator, if in 2032 or 2033:<\/p>\n

MVP $2 million; 2nd or 3rd: $1 million; 4th or 5th: $750,000<\/p>\n

If MVP in both 2032 and 2033: additional $2 million ($6 million MVP escalator maximum)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Signing bonus: $5 million, payable within 60 days of the contract\u2019s approval by Major League Baseball 2026 salary:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[3966,3307,49,48,1451,11906,462,4310,52630,82],"class_list":["post-131952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-maryland","tag-md-state-wire","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-samuel-basallo","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}