{"id":308944,"date":"2025-11-26T21:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308944\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T21:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:54:07","slug":"los-angeles-angels-explore-buyout-with-infielder-anthony-rendon-expected-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308944\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Angels explore buyout with infielder Anthony Rendon expected to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/anthony-rendon\/455515\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/anthony-rendon\/455515\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Rendon<\/a>\u2019s time with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-angels\/227\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-angels\/227\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> and as a Major League Baseball player appear to be at an end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47110621\/source-angels-talks-buy-final-year-anthony-rendon-deal\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47110621\/source-angels-talks-buy-final-year-anthony-rendon-deal\">ESPN\u2019s Alden Gonzalez reports the team<\/a> is in discussions to buy out the final year of his seven-year, $245 million deal with the expectation that Rendon is set to retire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rendon is owed $38 million for 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rendon, 35, missed the entirety of the 2025 season with a hip injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Houston, Rendon inked the deal with the Halos coming off of a career year in 2019 when he finished third in National League Most Valuable Player voting and helped lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/washington-nationals\/244\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/washington-nationals\/244\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Nationals<\/a> to the franchise\u2019s first World Series title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rendon\u2019s six years with the Angels have been riddled by injuries with the third baseman missing at least 100 games per season from 2020 to 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 257 games with the team, Rendon has batted .242 with 224 hits, 22 home runs, 125 runs batted in and a .727 OPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Rendon\u2019s time with the Los Angeles Angels and as a Major League Baseball player appear to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[138070,712,49,48,109553,462,82],"class_list":["post-308944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-anthony-rendon-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-455515","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-los-angeles-angels-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-227","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308944","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=308944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}