{"id":4445,"date":"2013-08-20T14:56:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T18:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2013-08-20T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T18:56:55","slug":"indians-release-pitcher-daisuke-matsuzaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/20\/indians-release-pitcher-daisuke-matsuzaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians release pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1728\" alt=\"daisukematsuzaka\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/daisukematsuzaka.jpg\" width=\"677\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/daisukematsuzaka.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/daisukematsuzaka-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Cleveland Indians released pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Matsuzaka, 32, asked for and was given his release after spending all season with Triple-A Columbus. During his stay there he held a 3.92 ERA and a 95\/35 K\/BB ratio over 103 1\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what the right-hander who spent six seasons with the Boston Red Sox plans to do next.<\/p>\n<p>The Indians brought Matsuaka to spring training to compete for the fifth starters spot in their rotation. That spot ultimately went to Scott Kazmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Indians released pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka on Tuesday. Matsuzaka, 32, asked for and was given his release after spending all season with Triple-A Columbus. During his stay there he held a 3.92 ERA and a 95\/35 K\/BB ratio over 103 1\/3 innings of work. It is unclear what the right-hander who spent six seasons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[156,193],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cleveland-indians","9":"tag-daisuke-matsuzaka"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","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=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}