{"id":4219,"date":"2013-08-05T12:58:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T16:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2013-08-05T12:59:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T16:59:45","slug":"report-nelson-cruz-will-accept-50-game-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/05\/report-nelson-cruz-will-accept-50-game-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Nelson Cruz will accept 50 game suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Texas Rangers outfielder Nelson Cruz will accept his 50-game suspension, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n

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Among players accepting 50-game suspensions: #Rangers<\/a>\u2019 Cruz, #Tigers<\/a>\u2019 Peralta, #Phlllies<\/a>\u2019 Bastardo, #Mets<\/a>\u2019 Valdespin, #Padres<\/a>\u2019 Cabrera.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) August 5, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Cruz will be a free agent this winter, so he has decided to get his Biogenesis punishment out of the way and enter the 2014 season with a clean slate.<\/p>\n

The news of Cruz accepting the suspension was first reported by CBS Sports, Jon Heyman.<\/p>\n

Cruz switched agents on Monday leading up to the suspension, from ACES, the agency headed by brothers Seth and Sam Levinson, to Adam Katz from the Wasserman Group.<\/p>\n

The suspension will cost Cruz $60,439 per game, a total of $3.021 million of his $11 million base salary for 2013. Cruz will finish up the 2013 campaign having registered a .841 OPS with 27 home runs and 76 RBI in 108 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Texas Rangers outfielder Nelson Cruz will accept his 50-game suspension, according to multiple reports.   Among players accepting 50-game suspensions: #Rangers\u2019 Cruz, #Tigers\u2019 Peralta, #Phlllies\u2019 Bastardo, #Mets\u2019 Valdespin, #Padres\u2019 Cabrera. \u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) August 5, 2013   Cruz will be a free agent this winter, so he has decided to get his Biogenesis punishment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-4219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219","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=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}