{"id":368855,"date":"2025-12-25T23:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/368855\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T23:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:05:10","slug":"mlb-rumors-as-sign-breakout-outfielder-to-86-million-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/368855\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB rumors: A’s sign breakout outfielder to $86 million contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Athletics<\/a> and outfielder Tyler Soderstrom<\/a> are in agreement on a seven-year contract extension worth $86 million, per ESPN. The pact includes a club option for an eighth year and escalators that can push the total value to $131 million.<\/p>\n

Soderstrom, 24, is coming off a breakout season. He hit .276\/.346\/.474 with 25 home runs and 93 runs batted in. His contributions were worth an estimated 4.3 Wins Above Replacement, according to Baseball Reference’s calculations.<\/p>\n

Soderstrom’s 126 OPS+ ranked third among A’s regulars, behind first baseman and American League Rookie of the Year Award winner Nick Kurtz<\/a> and catcher Shea Langeliers<\/a>. The A’s ranked sixth in the AL in runs scored, trailing five playoff teams: the New York Yankees<\/a>, Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>, Boston Red Sox<\/a>, Seattle Mariners<\/a>, and Detroit Tigers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Soderstrom, who was already under team control through the 2029 season, is now in possession of the largest contract in Athletics franchise history. That distinction previously belonged to right-hander Luis Severino<\/a>, a free-agent signing from last winter who inked a three-year pact worth $67 million.<\/p>\n

The A’s are slated to enter their second season since departing Oakland as part of a multi-city relocation route. They spent last year and will spend the next few years in Sacramento until a ballpark is constructed in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The Athletics and outfielder Tyler Soderstrom are in agreement on a seven-year contract extension worth $86…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[495,49,48,462,82,20079],"class_list":["post-368855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-athletics","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-tyler-soderstrom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368855","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=368855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}