{"id":260247,"date":"2025-11-04T04:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T04:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260247\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T04:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T04:02:07","slug":"thairo-estradas-7m-option-for-2026-declined-by-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260247\/","title":{"rendered":"Thairo Estrada&#8217;s $7M option for 2026 declined by Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DENVER &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/thairo-estrada\/739620\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/thairo-estrada\/739620\" target=\"_blank\">Thairo Estrada<\/a>\u2019s $7 million option for 2026 was declined Monday by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/colorado-rockies\/251\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/colorado-rockies\/251\" 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 class=\"c-paragraph\">Estrada agreed in January to a deal that called for a $3.25 million salary in 2025 and guaranteed $4 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">He didn\u2019t 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\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/kumar-rocker\/1120214\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/kumar-rocker\/1120214\" 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\u2019s $7 million option for 2026 was declined Monday by the Colorado Rockies, triggering a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,120649,462,82,120650],"class_list":{"0":"post-260247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-colorado-rockies-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-251","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-thairo-estrada-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-739620"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260247","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=260247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}