{"id":363,"date":"2012-10-25T10:49:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T14:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=363"},"modified":"2012-10-25T10:49:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T14:49:35","slug":"ichiro-suzuki-wants-to-stay-with-the-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/10\/25\/ichiro-suzuki-wants-to-stay-with-the-yankees\/","title":{"rendered":"Ichiro Suzuki wants to stay with the Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-364\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-364\" title=\"ichiro\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/ichiro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/ichiro.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/ichiro-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source: Gregory Shamus\/GETTY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A mid-season trade to the New York Yankees rejuvenated outfielder Ichiro Suzuki. He was one of the few Yankees to be productive during the American League Championship Series, batting .353 including a home run in Game 1.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Sherman of the New York Post is reporting that Ichiro\u00a0 &#8220;strongly wants to stay&#8221; with the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Ichiro\u00a0 posted a .322\/.340\/.454 batting line and tallied 14 stolen bases in 67 games this season with New York. Quite an improvement over his .260\/.288\/.353 line he had in 85 games with the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n<p>This season was Ichiro&#8217;s first post season appearance since his rookie season with Seattle in 2001. Ichiro made $17 million this season. A new deal could range between $5 million and $8 million.<\/p>\n<p>If the Yankees do opt to re-sign Ichiro it would likely push Brett Gardner to a bench spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mid-season trade to the New York Yankees rejuvenated outfielder Ichiro Suzuki. He was one of the few Yankees to be productive during the American League Championship Series, batting .353 including a home run in Game 1. Joel Sherman of the New York Post is reporting that Ichiro\u00a0 &#8220;strongly wants to stay&#8221; with the Yankees. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[58,38],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ichiro-suzuki","9":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}