{"id":5719,"date":"2013-12-18T20:53:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T01:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5719"},"modified":"2013-12-18T23:07:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T04:07:26","slug":"luke-scott-headed-to-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/18\/luke-scott-headed-to-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Scott headed to Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/lukescott.jpg\" alt=\"lukescott\" width=\"594\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/lukescott.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/lukescott-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nLuke Scott will head to Japan for the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>Scott, 35, spent the 2013 season with the Tampa Bay Rays hitting .241\/.326\/.415 in 253 at-bats with nine home runs and 40 RBI. While Scott probably could have signed on with a team stateside it&#8217;s likely that he was offered more by the SK Wyverns of the Korean Baseball Organization.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source: Luke Scott agrees to deal with SK Wyverns in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisCotillo\/statuses\/413475132620148736\">December 19, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Scott is hardly the only former major leaguer headed out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Hiroshima Carp have picked up their option on Kila Ka&#8217;aihue keeping the infielder in Japan. He joined the Carp after being let go last summer by Arizona. <\/p>\n<p>Former first round pick Greg Reynolds is also headed to Japan. Reynolds flamed out as a prospect in Colorado and eventually find his way to Cincinnati where he had a 5.52 ERA in 29 1\/3 innings this past season for the Reds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Scott will head to Japan for the 2014 season. Scott, 35, spent the 2013 season with the Tampa Bay Rays hitting .241\/.326\/.415 in 253 at-bats with nine home runs and 40 RBI. While Scott probably could have signed on with a team stateside it&#8217;s likely that he was offered more by the SK Wyverns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[582,257],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-greg-reynolds","9":"tag-luke-scott"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719","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=5719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5719"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}