{"id":4491,"date":"2013-08-22T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4491"},"modified":"2013-08-22T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T22:32:00","slug":"daisuke-matsuzaka-to-start-for-mets-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/22\/daisuke-matsuzaka-to-start-for-mets-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Daisuke Matsuzaka to start for Mets on Friday"},"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=\"674\" height=\"451\" 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: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Daisuke Matsuzaka will get to face the Detroit Tigers afterall this season. It just will not come as a member of the Cleveland Indians.<\/p>\n<p>Signed to a minor league deal with the Indians in the off-season the 32-year-old Matsuzaka never made it to the major leagues. Released two days ago, Matsuzaka was picked up by the New York Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Matsuzaka will start for the Mets on Friday after making 19 starts for the Indians Triple-A affiliate. He will wear No. 16 when he takes the mound for the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>In 117 career major league games, all of which came with the Boston Red Sox, Matsuzaka holds a 4.52 ERA and a 1.42 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daisuke Matsuzaka will get to face the Detroit Tigers afterall this season. It just will not come as a member of the Cleveland Indians. Signed to a minor league deal with the Indians in the off-season the 32-year-old Matsuzaka never made it to the major leagues. Released two days ago, Matsuzaka was picked up by [&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":[193,76],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-daisuke-matsuzaka","9":"tag-new-york-mets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491","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=4491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491\/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=4491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4491"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}