{"id":547567,"date":"2026-01-31T12:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T12:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/547567\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T12:38:17","slug":"as-ink-all-star-jacob-wilson-to-seven-year-70-million-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/547567\/","title":{"rendered":"A\u2019s ink All-Star Jacob Wilson to seven-year, $70 million contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Athletics locked up a piece of their young core.<\/p>\n

All-Star shortstop Jacob Wilson and the A\u2019s reached an agreement on a seven-year extension that includes a club option for a potential eighth year, the team announced on Friday.<\/p>\n

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The deal is worth $70 million, The Post\u2019s Joel Sherman confirmed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Athletics shortstop Jacob Wilson throws to first base during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals in West Sacramento, Calif., Sept. 27, 2025. AP<\/p>\n

Wilson, 23, is coming off a stellar rookie season where he put up a slash line of .311\/.355\/.444 with 26 doubles and 13 home runs.<\/p>\n

Wilson\u2019s .311 batting average was tied for second in the American League with Bo Bichette, trailing just Aaron Judge (.331).<\/p>\n

His efforts earned him his first career All-Star appearance as he finished second for American League Rookie of the Year race fellow A\u2019s teammate Nick Kurtz.<\/p>\n

Wilson\u2019s extension comes as the Athletics continue to build their young offensive core, with the team already having outfielders Tyler Soderstrom and Lawrence Butler under contract until at least 2030.<\/p>\n

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The Athletics selected Wilson with the No. 6 overall pick in the 2023 MLB Draft, and he quickly made his way to the big leagues, spending just 83 games in the minors before being called up at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n

When speaking to reporters at the end of this past season, Wilson said that it was \u201can honor\u201d to be in the AL batting title discussion alongside Judge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been trailing that guy all year,\u201d Wilson said in September<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely an honor to be in the same category as him with the year he\u2019s had. It\u2019s awesome just to be able to compete with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still a couple of points behind him, but I\u2019m just going out there every day having fun playing baseball with these guys for the last time this season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletics locked up a piece of their young core. All-Star shortstop Jacob Wilson and the A\u2019s reached…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[106,537,5,88,1950,17780,55,4810,4,3226,459,544],"class_list":["post-547567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-aaron-judge","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-bo-bichette","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-joel-sherman","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-lawrence-butler","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-tyler-soderstrom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115989755687310560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547567","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=547567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}