{"id":479561,"date":"2024-03-04T14:05:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T18:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479561"},"modified":"2024-03-04T14:05:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T18:05:39","slug":"phillies-sign-3-year-extension-with-ace-zack-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/phillies-sign-3-year-extension-with-ace-zack-wheeler\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies sign 3-year extension with ace Zack Wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phillies have reached an agreement with right-hander Zack Wheeler on a three-year extension, ensuring the ace will remain with Philadelphia through the 2027 season. While financial details were not disclosed on Monday, various sources reported that the extension is valued at $126 million, making it the highest-ever deal in terms of average annual value.<\/p>\n<p>At 33 years old, Wheeler is slated to earn $23.5 million in the current season, marking the final year of the five-year contract he inked with the Phillies in December 2019. The extension is set to take effect in 2025. In the previous season, Wheeler posted a record of 13-6 with a 3.61 ERA and 212 strikeouts in 32 starts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Zack Wheeler and the Philadelphia Phillies are reportedly in agreement on a multi-year extension. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jBghuzPCJ1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jBghuzPCJ1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBNetwork\/status\/1764654046583910778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Over the course of his career, Wheeler has accumulated an 87-63 record with a 3.45 ERA in 227 starts, spanning stints with the New York Mets (2013-19) and the Phillies. He boasts a career strikeout rate of 9.1 per nine innings. Additionally, Wheeler has a postseason track record, holding a 4-3 record with a 2.42 ERA in 11 appearances, including 10 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler&#8217;s standout performance in 2021 earned him a National League All-Star selection, and he finished as the runner-up in Cy Young Award voting that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phillies have reached an agreement with right-hander Zack Wheeler on a three-year extension, ensuring the ace will remain with Philadelphia through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":479562,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16730,21630],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[18580,21631],"acf":{"announce":"\u0422he extension is valued at $126 million, making it the highest-ever deal in terms of average annual value","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\/479561"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479563,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479561\/revisions\/479563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479561"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479561"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}