{"id":510721,"date":"2026-01-08T03:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/510721\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T03:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:14:14","slug":"colorado-lands-michael-lorenzen-on-1-year-8-million-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/510721\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado lands Michael Lorenzen on 1-year, $8 million contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former All-Star pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/michael-lorenzen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Lorenzen<\/a> is headed to the National League West. Lorenzen, who just turned 34 years old on Sunday, has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/2009092828568408420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">agreed on a contract<\/a> with the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/colorado-rockies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a>, according to Jeff Passan of ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight-hander Michael Lorenzen and the Colorado Rockies are in agreement on a one-year, $8 million contract that includes a club option, sources tell ESPN. Lorenzen, 34, will be a starter for Colorado, which holds a $9 million option for the 2027 season,\u201d Passan wrote in a social media post on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzen, who suited up for the Kansas City Royals in the previous two seasons, becomes the first notable signing by the Rockies under new president of baseball operations Paul DePodesta.<\/p>\n<p>This story is being updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former All-Star pitcher Michael Lorenzen is headed to the National League West. Lorenzen, who just turned 34 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,371,4,2046,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-510721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-rockies","11":"tag-coloradorockies","12":"tag-michael-lorenzen","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-mlb-free-agency","15":"tag-rockies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115857304035882555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}