{"id":3923,"date":"2013-07-26T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2013-07-26T11:00:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T15:00:13","slug":"cubs-sign-taiwan-pitcher-jen-ho-tseng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/26\/cubs-sign-taiwan-pitcher-jen-ho-tseng\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs sign Taiwan pitcher Jen-Ho Tseng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3924\" alt=\"jenhotseng\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/jenhotseng.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/jenhotseng.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/jenhotseng-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Cubs continue to be active in the international market. On Friday it was revealed that the Cubs had signed right handed pitcher Jen-Ho Tseng\u00a0 to a contract.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>As expected, teenage RHP Jen-Ho Tseng (Taiwan) has signed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Cubs&amp;src=hash\">#Cubs<\/a> for $1.625M. OF Eloy Jimenez signs next week <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/GAfaIqsBW9\">http:\/\/t.co\/GAfaIqsBW9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jesse Sanchez (@JesseSanchezMLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JesseSanchezMLB\/statuses\/360756141938053121\">July 26, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tseng&#8217;s contract comes with a $1.65 million bonus. He was the youngest player on the Chinese Taipei World Baseball Classic roster. He has a fastball that can reach 95 mph. While Tseng is years away from contributing at the major league level there is no rush as the Cubs are in year two of a massive rebuilding plan under Theo Epstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs continue to be active in the international market. On Friday it was revealed that the Cubs had signed right handed pitcher Jen-Ho Tseng\u00a0 to a contract. As expected, teenage RHP Jen-Ho Tseng (Taiwan) has signed with the #Cubs for $1.625M. OF Eloy Jimenez signs next week http:\/\/t.co\/GAfaIqsBW9 \u2014 Jesse Sanchez (@JesseSanchezMLB) July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,418],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-3923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-jen-ho-tseng"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","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=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}