{"id":148795,"date":"2026-01-25T08:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/148795\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T08:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:54:17","slug":"angels-superstar-tabbed-as-leagues-most-overpaid-designated-hitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/148795\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels Superstar Tabbed As League&#8217;s Most Overpaid Designated Hitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The signs are there for Trout, but he\u2019s still a positive batter in the league. His salary puts him among the most expensive players in the league, but what he provides to the Angels goes far beyond that number. If the Angels aren&#8217;t going to properly spend their money anyway, fans would prefer to watch Trout end his career in Anaheim than anywhere else. On paper, he may be overpaid, but that doesn&#8217;t mean the Angels would ever regret signing him to his $426.5 million extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The signs are there for Trout, but he\u2019s still a positive batter in the league. His salary puts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-148795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}