{"id":360246,"date":"2025-11-06T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360246\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:20:11","slug":"justin-turner-becomes-free-agent-after-chicago-cubs-decline-mutual-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360246\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Turner becomes free agent after Chicago Cubs decline mutual option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Infielder Justin Turner became a free agent Thursday after the Chicago Cubs declined a $10 million mutual option.<\/p>\n<p>Turner will receive a $2 million buyout as part of a <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cubs-justin-turner-728b4e636837d69455633c4590008fae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contract that included a $4 million salary this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A first baseman and third baseman who turns 41 on Nov. 23, Turner hit .219 with three homers and 18 RBIs in 80 games.<\/p>\n<p>Turner is a two-time All-Star and was a 2020 World Series champion with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He has a .283 average with 201 homers and 832 RBIs in 17 major league seasons with Baltimore (2009-10), the New York Mets (2010-13), the Dodgers (2014-22), Boston (2023), Toronto (2024), Seattle (2024) and the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>____<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Infielder Justin Turner became a free agent Thursday after the Chicago Cubs declined a $10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":360247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1271,1819,1818,38183,2502,1266,1822,1305,46399,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-360246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-chicago-cubs","9":"tag-il-state-wire","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-justin-turner","12":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-mlb-baseball","15":"tag-new-york-mets","16":"tag-softball","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115503905135400656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}