{"id":1337,"date":"2013-02-10T13:18:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T18:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2013-02-10T13:18:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T18:18:42","slug":"daisuke-matsuzaka-signs-minor-league-deal-with-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/02\/10\/daisuke-matsuzaka-signs-minor-league-deal-with-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"Daisuke Matsuzaka signs minor league deal with Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1286\" alt=\"daisukematsuzaka\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/daisukematsuzaka.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/daisukematsuzaka.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/daisukematsuzaka-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Daisuke Matsuzaka has signed a minor league deal with the Cleveland Indians. In Cleveland he will be reunited with former Red Sox manager Terry Francona.<\/p>\n<p>The Indians <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/02\/09\/jason-giambi-close-to-minor-league-deal-with-indians\/\" target=\"_blank\">came to terms<\/a> on a minor league deal with Jason Giambi on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The market for Matsuzaka was weak this winter after he finished last season with a 8.28 ERA in 11 starts.<\/p>\n<p>If Matsuzaka make the Indians Opening Day roster he will have a base salary of $1.5 million. Incentives can push the deal to a total value of $4 million.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of rotation spots that could be up for grab in Cleveland but the 32-year-old will have to impress in Spring Training if he is to have any chance at them. It is more likely that Matsuzaka lands a spot in the Indians bullpen. He could also begin the season at Triple-A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daisuke Matsuzaka has signed a minor league deal with the Cleveland Indians. In Cleveland he will be reunited with former Red Sox manager Terry Francona. The Indians came to terms on a minor league deal with Jason Giambi on Saturday night. The market for Matsuzaka was weak this winter after he finished last season with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[156,193],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-cleveland-indians","tag-daisuke-matsuzaka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}