{"id":955038,"date":"2026-11-02T02:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955038\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T02:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:50:09","slug":"right-hander-garrett-whitlocks-8-25-million-exercised-by-boston-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955038\/","title":{"rendered":"Right-hander Garrett Whitlock&#8217;s $8.25 million exercised by Boston Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Pitcher Garrett Whitlock&#8217;s $8.25 million option for 2027 was exercised Sunday by the Boston Red Sox, preventing the pitcher from becoming a free agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 30-year-old right-hander, Whitlock was 7-2 with a career-best 1.72 ERA and four saves in 54 relief appearances, striking out 59 in 52 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He didn&#8217;t pitch for the Red Sox between May 24 and June 9 because of left knee inflammation and between Aug. 9 and Aug, 29 due to right elbow inflammation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Whitlock agreed in April 2022 to an $18.75 million, four-year contract that included a pair of club options. The Red Sox would have owed a $1 million buyout if they had declined the 2027 option. Boston has a $10.5 million option for 2028 with a $500,000 buyout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\n                See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Pitcher Garrett Whitlock&#8217;s $8.25 million option for 2027 was exercised Sunday by the Boston Red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-955038","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\/955038","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=955038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}