{"id":480572,"date":"2024-03-19T10:10:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T14:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480572"},"modified":"2024-03-19T10:10:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T14:10:35","slug":"snell-inks-a-2-year-62-million-dollar-contract-with-the-giants","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/snell-inks-a-2-year-62-million-dollar-contract-with-the-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Snell inks a 2-year, 62 million dollar contract with the Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Snell&#8217;s free agency came to an end.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Blake Snell signed a 2-year deal for $62,000,000. <\/p>\n<p>The role specialty insurance could have played in his decision:<\/p>\n<p>A short-term deal for a reining Cy Young winner is surprising. <\/p>\n<p>Most people have heard of life, health, and disability insurance. <\/p>\n<p>For professional athletes,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gdo08WJzAG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gdo08WJzAG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jacob Turner (@TheJacobTurner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheJacobTurner\/status\/1770056154028147019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The reigning National League Cy Young Award champ signed a 2-year, 62 million dollar contract with the San Francisco Giants today, 10 days before his new organization begins its regular campaign vs. his ex-franchise, the San Diego Padres. The contract features an opt-out after the 1<sup>st<\/sup> campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Snell&#8217;s contract, like those of fellow Scott Boras clients Cody Bellinger and Matt Chapman, both of whom inked recently, provides him with a higher average annual value in exchange for less length on his deal but also gives Blake the chance to re-enter free agency after the end of the season to secure more money if he performs well.<\/p>\n<p>Snell finishes a busy offseason for San Francisco, who have made the postseason only 1 time in the past 7 campaigns and aimed to bring to the team great players for an organization now led by 3-time Coach of the Year Bob Melvin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Snell&#8217;s free agency came to an end. Blake Snell signed a 2-year deal for $62,000,000. The role specialty insurance could have played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":480573,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20347,17863,16903],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[20348,18537,12402],"acf":{"announce":"Blake landed a 2-year deal with San Francisco.","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\/480572"}],"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=480572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480575,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480572\/revisions\/480575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480572"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480572"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}