{"id":430620,"date":"2026-01-24T16:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430620\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T16:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:52:11","slug":"report-star-third-baseman-jose-ramirez-nearing-new-deal-with-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430620\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Star third baseman Jose Ramirez nearing new deal with Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The star third baseman is nearing a restructured seven-year, $175 million contract with the Guardians, Zack Meisel of The Athletic <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZackMeisel\/status\/2015072916388364605\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The new deal adds four years and $106 million to his commitment in Cleveland, keeping him there through 2032, and includes about $70 million in deferrals, per Meisel.<\/p>\n<p>Ram\u00edrez, 33, has made the all-star team and finished top-10 in AL MVP voting in each of the last five seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Dominican Republic native placed third in the latter for the third time in his career last season after slashing .283\/.360\/.503 with 30 home runs, 85 RBIs and a personal-best 44 steals.<\/p>\n<p>He has spent his entire career with the Guardians since debuting with the club in 2013, making seven all-star teams in total while winning six Silver Sluggers. Over 1,609 games, he&#8217;s slugged 285 home runs with 949 RBIs, with his career slash line of .279\/.353\/.504 nearly mirroring last season&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Ram\u00edrez was part of the Guardians team that took the Chicago Cubs to seven games in the 2016 World Series. He&#8217;s made six other post-seasons with the club since then, including last season&#8217;s AL Central title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The star third baseman is nearing a restructured seven-year, $175 million contract with the Guardians, Zack Meisel of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-430620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430620","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=430620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}