{"id":479406,"date":"2024-03-02T11:25:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T15:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479406"},"modified":"2024-03-02T11:25:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T15:25:29","slug":"san-francisco-chapman-agree-on-54-million-dollar-contract","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/san-francisco-chapman-agree-on-54-million-dollar-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco, Chapman agree on 54 million dollar contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Chapman, labeled as 1 of the best defensive infielders in baseball, agreed to a 3-year, 54 million-dollar deal with the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Matt Chapman is headed to the Giants, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JeffPassan<\/a>. \u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Chapman will receive opt-outs after each of the first two seasons. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BYKVGlNAHq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BYKVGlNAHq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1763792018809999554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The contract also features opt-outs after the 1<sup>st<\/sup> and the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> season of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Chapman&#8217;s contract is almost identical to Cody Bellinger&#8217;s, who re-inked with the Chicago Cubs a few days ago, with his highest payments at the deal&#8217;s outset. Like Cody, Matt also has the built-in opportunity to test the market again if he performs better in the next campaign than in the past season.<\/p>\n<p>Chapman, who will be 31 years old next month, won his 4<sup>th<\/sup> Gold Glove Award in the past season with the Toronto Blue Jays. Since the beginning of the 2018 campaign, Matt ranks 1<sup>st<\/sup> among all baseballers at that position in defensive runs saved and is also 3<sup>rd<\/sup> in outs above average.<\/p>\n<p>The signing of Chapman must complement what is expected to be an elite pitching staff \u2013 featuring sinkerballer Logan Webb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Chapman, labeled as 1 of the best defensive infielders in baseball, agreed to a 3-year, 54 million-dollar deal with the San Francisco [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479407,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18717,17863,16903],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[19122,18537,12402],"acf":{"announce":"Matt will play for the Giants as he is leaving the Blue Jays.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479410,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479406\/revisions\/479410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479406"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479406"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}