{"id":223906,"date":"2022-03-20T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/dodgers-the-other-contracts-that-freddie-freeman-turned-down"},"modified":"2022-03-20T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T01:30:00","slug":"dodgers-the-other-contracts-that-freddie-freeman-turned-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/dodgers-the-other-contracts-that-freddie-freeman-turned-down","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers: The Other Contracts that Freddie Freeman Turned Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freddie Freeman had other teams vying for his services, here are the offers he turned down. View the original article to see embedded media. The Dodgers introduced Freddie Freeman yesterday at Camelback Ranch. Both Freeman, and team president Andrew Friedman discussed the evolution of the negotiations during the press conference. Landing Freeman is quite the accomplishment for the Dodgers front office, but it didn&#8217;t come easy. LA had to outmaneuver several other teams to reel in the big fish. MLB.com&#8217;s Jon Heyman reported the other offers that Freeman had on the table besides the Dodgers six-year, $162M deal. Atlanta Braves Prior to the Braves making the trade for the Athletic&#8217;s first baseman Matt Olson, Heyman says the franchise offered Freeman a five-year, $140M deal. Freeman&#8217;s camp countered with $165M for a five-year contract and a six-year, $175M contract. Tampa Bay Rays Earlier this month, Heyman reported that the Rays made an offer to Freeman before the December 1 lockout .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freddie Freeman had other teams vying for his services, here are the offers he turned down.<\/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-223906","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\/223906","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=223906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}