{"id":426865,"date":"2022-12-07T13:12:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=426865"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:53:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:53:15","slug":"philadelphia-phillies-agree-to-72m-deal-with-rhp-taijuan-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/philadelphia-phillies-agree-to-72m-deal-with-rhp-taijuan-walker","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies agree to $72M deal with RHP Taijuan Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 7 (UPI) &#8212; The Philadelphia Phillies and free agent right-handed pitcher Taijuan Walker agreed to a four-year, $72 million contract. Starting pitcher Taijuan Walker went 12-5 last season for the New York Mets. File Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI Sources told ESPN , The Athletic and MLB.com about the pact Tuesday night. Walker, 30, went 12-5 with a 3.49 ERA in 29 starts last season for the New York mets. Walker went 7-11 with a 4.47 ERA in 30 appearances in 2021, en route to his first All-Star selection. He owns a career 54-50 record with a 3.89 ERA in 167 games. The 10-year veteran was the No. 43 overall pick in the 2010 MLB Draft. He made his MLB debut in 2013 for the Seattle Mariners . The Mariners traded Walker to the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2016. He later re-signed with the Mariners in 2020 as a free agent. The Mariners traded Walker for a second time a few<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Phillies and free agent right-handed pitcher Taijuan Walker agreed to a four-year, $72 million contract.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-426865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426865","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=426865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}