{"id":565083,"date":"2026-03-27T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565083\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T20:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:31:08","slug":"report-orioles-sign-starter-shane-baz-to-five-year-68m-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565083\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Orioles sign starter Shane Baz to five-year, $68M contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orioles signed the starter to a five-year, $68 million contract extension, ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/2037618589780394265\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Baz joined the Orioles this off-season in a trade with the Tampa Bay Rays and has yet to make a regular-season start with his new AL East club.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old went 10-12 with a 4.87 ERA last season in 31 starts. It was his first full season after Tommy John surgery. He also went 4-3 with a 3.06 ERA in 14 starts in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Baz was a first-round draft pick by Pittsburgh in 2017, and he was traded to Tampa Bay in 2018 in a deal that sent Chris Archer to the Pirates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;with files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orioles signed the starter to a five-year, $68 million contract extension, ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan reported on Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-565083","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\/565083","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=565083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}