{"id":27573,"date":"2025-08-23T17:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/orioles-lock-up-basallo-rubenstein-announces-more-extensions-and-promising-future\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T17:39:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:39:31","slug":"orioles-lock-up-basallo-rubenstein-announces-more-extensions-and-promising-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/orioles-lock-up-basallo-rubenstein-announces-more-extensions-and-promising-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles lock up Basallo: Rubenstein announces more extensions and promising future"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Orioles Secure Future with Extension for Samuel Basallo<\/h2>\n\nA day after Samuel Basallo signed a long-term contract extension with the Baltimore Orioles, owner David Rubenstein hinted that he won&#8217;t be the last to secure such a deal.\n\nThe Orioles celebrated the signing of an eight-year, $67 million contract with the rookie catcher during a press conference on Saturday, which was attended by most of Basallo&#8217;s teammates, including Gunnar Henderson and Adley Rutschman.\n\nDespite salary increases of approximately $40 million in consecutive seasons, Baltimore&#8217;s inability to reach long-term agreements with Henderson, Rutschman, or other young regulars has exacerbated tensions during a disappointing season.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Everyone is disappointed.<\/p><cite>David Rubenstein<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nRubenstein assured the fans that it was not for lack of effort and that securing a 21-year-old player, who is the number 8 prospect in the game according to MLB Pipeline, is part of a broader strategy.\n\nRutschman performed excellently in his early years in the majors, but he had a slump towards the end of 2024 and has batted .227 during a 2025 season plagued by injuries. Now, the Orioles have committed to Basallo, who can also play first base. Elias suggested that Basallo and Rutschman, who is under team control until the 2027 season, could coexist.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>From my point of view, the more, the better when it comes to good players.<\/p><cite>Elias<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBasallo, a native of the Dominican Republic, is the first Orioles player to sign an extension before completing his arbitration years since outfielder Adam Jones agreed to a six-year, $85.5 million contract in 2012.\n\nJones would have been a free agent after the 2013 season.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orioles Secure Future with Extension for Samuel Basallo A day after Samuel Basallo signed a long-term contract extension with the Baltimore Orioles, owner David Rubenstein hinted that he won&#8217;t be the last to secure such a deal. The Orioles celebrated the signing of an eight-year, $67 million contract with the rookie catcher during a press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[88,65,1112,7405],"class_list":{"0":"post-27573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-contract","10":"tag-orioles","11":"tag-samuel-basallo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}