{"id":190112,"date":"2021-11-18T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/rays-reportedly-make-big-contract-offer-to-wander-franco"},"modified":"2022-10-14T16:53:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:53:48","slug":"rays-reportedly-make-big-contract-offer-to-wander-franco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/rays-reportedly-make-big-contract-offer-to-wander-franco","title":{"rendered":"Rays reportedly make big contract offer to Wander Franco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rays reportedly have started conversations about a long-term contract with Wander Franco, the 20-year-old shortstop who made a dazzling debut this season. [ IVY CEBALLO | Times ]The Rays&#8217; offseason to-do list typically includes exploring long-term contracts with several of their top young players.And they have started those conversations with Wander Franco, the 20-year-old shortstop who made a dazzling debut this season.The Rays, according to a report from the Dominican Republic, have proposed a &#8220;10-year-plus commitment worth between $150-200 (million).&#8221;Rays officials, citing a long-standing policy about player matters such as trades or contract negotiations, declined to comment on the report or confirm talks had been held. Franco&#8217;s agent, Manny Paula, did not reply to a message.According to the report by Yancen Pujols for the Spanish-language El Caribe newspaper, &#8220;Franco&#8217;s camp is studying the offer and are expected to counteroffer,&#8221; so it appears there are still negotiations to be held and no deal is imminent.Under the current system, Franco would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rays&#8217; offseason to-do list typically includes exploring long-term contracts with several of their top young players. And they have started those conversations with Wander Franco, the 20-year-old shortstop who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,1],"tags":[220,202,58],"class_list":["post-190112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-news","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}