CLEVELAND \u2014 Thursday was a day that Cleveland baseball fans have waited a long time for.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
The Cleveland Guardians signed 7-time All-Star 3B\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez to a 7-year, $175 million contract extension through the 2032 season\u00a0
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Ram\u00edrez said in a press conference on Thursday he is going to finish his career in Cleveland
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Guardians owner & CEO Paul Dolan said he thinks\u00a0Ram\u00edrez will go down as the greatest player in the team’s history<\/p>\n
It was a day that a superstar commited to the Guardians for the long haul and expressed his desire to spend the rest of his career in Cleveland. That’s exactly what franchise icon\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez did.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chances are if you\u2019ve attended a game at Progressive FIeld in the last decade, you\u2019ve heard the chants for Guardians superstar\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez. He officially signed the largest contract in team history to remain with the franchise through 2032. It’s a restructured seven-year deal worth $175 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen this contract is done, and Jose\u2019s contract here is complete, he will have established himself not only as one of the best baseball players of our generation, but an icon in Cleveland’s sport history,” Guardians’ President of Baseball Operations Chris Antonetti said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s rare in Cleveland\u2019s long baseball history to get a long-term commitment like this from a player of Ramirez\u2019s caliber. Names like C.C. Sabathia and Francisco Lindor fill a list of Cleveland stars who left for more money.\u00a0Antonetti says it takes a special player and person to change that narrative, ultimately taking less money to stay in Cleveland.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s rare that you look with three years left on a contract that you would look to restructure things,” said Antonetti. “We’re talking about a very unique player with Jose Ramirez. There’s no one else like him in our organization’s recent history.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ram\u00edrez said Cleveland has become his home and hopes to finish his career with the Guardians because of the support he\u2019s received from the organization and the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s important to be here, this is where my family is and what I want them to be,” said Ram\u00edrez. “Most importantly, it’s where I look forward to completing my career. I feel I have the same sense of pride from Cleveland that I have from the D.R. I can call myself a 50\/50, 50% Dominican and 50% Clevelander.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
When Ram\u00edrez\u00a0completes his new contract, he\u2019ll become just the 20th player to spend an entire career of at least 20 seasons with one team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think\u00a0Jos\u00e9 will go down as the greatest player in the history of our franchise,” Guardians’ owner & CEO Paul Dolan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ram\u00edrez will become the franchise leader in games played this season and already ranks in the top 10 in several other categories. There\u2019s still one elusive goal that remains.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ultimate goal remains the same, which is a World Series,” said\u00a0Ram\u00edrez.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said he wanted to spend his entire career in Cleveland,” Antonetti said. “He wanted his jersey retired here. He wanted to go to the Hall of Fame as a Cleveland Guardian, and he wanted to win a World Series here. I have no doubt by the end of this contract, he will have achieved them.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Cleveland Guardians’ equipment trucks left for Spring Training in Goodyear, Arizona on Thursday. Guardians’ pitchers and catchers will report to Spring Training on Feb. 10.\u00a0Ram\u00edrez and other postion players will report on Feb. 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 Thursday was a day that Cleveland baseball fans have waited a long time for. What You…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2380],"tags":[556,560,5,135,51,2565,16756,538,41253,4,169,1944,16757,185,558],"class_list":["post-544904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-ctv","tag-guardians","tag-jack-berney","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-what-you-need-to-know","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115981179119306433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544904","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=544904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}