{"id":573,"date":"2012-11-22T13:51:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T18:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=573"},"modified":"2012-11-22T13:51:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T18:51:38","slug":"bryan-lahair-agrees-to-contract-with-japanese-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/11\/22\/bryan-lahair-agrees-to-contract-with-japanese-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan LaHair agrees to contract with Japanese team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www4.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Bryan+Lahair+Los+Angeles+Dodgers+v+Chicago+eCu7W_2mI7Gl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"441\" \/>Bryan LaHair will go to Japan for the 2013 season. The 2012 National League All-Star has signed a contract worth $4.5 million to play the next two seasons for the Softbank Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>LaHair was designated for assignment by the Cubs earlier this week and would have been in line for a contract worth the league minimum had he opted to remain in the US.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012 LaHair got off to a strong start while playing first base for the Cubs. He eventually was selected to the All-Star team but faded in the second half. The Cubs eventually promoted prospect Anthony Rizzo and LaHair found himself on the bench as the season came to an end.<\/p>\n<p>LaHair finished with a .259\/.334\/.450 line while hitting 16 home runs and driving in 40 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan LaHair will go to Japan for the 2013 season. The 2012 National League All-Star has signed a contract worth $4.5 million to play the next two seasons for the Softbank Hawks. LaHair was designated for assignment by the Cubs earlier this week and would have been in line for a contract worth the league [&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":[98],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-bryan-lahair"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","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=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}