{"id":538115,"date":"2026-01-25T21:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/538115\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T21:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:45:16","slug":"guardians-news-and-notes-jose-brings-warmth-to-cleveland-cold-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/538115\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians News and Notes: Jose Brings Warmth to Cleveland Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Yesterday, Guardians\u2019 fans got another special treat from the reliable source of happiness on their favorite baseball team &#8211; Jose Ramirez &#8211; as he agreed to an extension to keep him with the Guardians through 2032, his age 40 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I found it helpful to <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2xgQm97nna4ctVfvj5Savp?si=ZJKtODn6SSWJumcjWmxo3A&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=a079e4e0d6bc4f6a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">listen to Zack Meisel explain the deal<\/a>, on the Selby is Godcast with T.J. Zuppe, which pays Jose $15M per year, then defers an extra $10M to be paid out over 10 years 10 years from now, then the same thing for 2027-2032. It was encouraging to hear that David Blitzer was heavily involved in negotations as he will, assumedly, be the one paying Jose through 2052. I think it\u2019s also important to note that Jose will very likely be a goodwill ambassador &#8211; if not MORE &#8211; for the Guardians as long as he lives. Or, as long as the planet\/society exists, whichever end comes first. Long live, Jose!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">MLB Trade Rumors, as usual, does a good job summarizing the news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/01\/guardians-close-to-extension-with-jose-ramirez.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Jose has bonuses built in for MVP\u2019s and MVP voting finishes, Gold Gloves, All-Star Games and LCS or World Series MVP\u2019s. May he collect them all. He also gets a private jet ride per year, and to and from the All-Star game if he makes it, and an extra private hotel room on road trips. Hopefully, he also gets an upgraded Mario Kart set-up in the dugout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Of course, the responses have ranged from unbridled joy, to performative virtue-signaling that \u201cthis doesn\u2019t change the fact that ownership needs to invest in the team\u201d (yes, Captain Obvious. Now, be happy for three seconds), to deranged resentment that Jose will be paid a ridiculously reasonable $15M per year to finish his Hall of Fame Career entirely as a Cleveland Guardian because Miguel Cabrera was paid twice as much and hampered a Tigers\u2019 team whose fans still absolutely loved seeing him play out the last part of his Hall of Fame career in Detroit. Choose unbridled joy, folks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s quite cold outside and snowy, but we only have 18 days until pitchers and catchers report and 27 days until the first Spring Training game. Keep your head up! Jose Ramirez loves you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday, Guardians\u2019 fans got another special treat from the reliable source of happiness on their favorite baseball team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,38552,2565,538,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-538115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-guardians","11":"tag-cleveland-guardians-news","12":"tag-clevelandguardians","13":"tag-guardians","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115957932032710563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538115","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=538115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}