{"id":5783,"date":"2013-12-24T20:41:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T01:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5783"},"modified":"2013-12-24T20:41:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T01:41:44","slug":"conflicting-reports-on-whether-or-not-masahiro-tanaka-will-be-posted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/24\/conflicting-reports-on-whether-or-not-masahiro-tanaka-will-be-posted\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflicting reports on whether or not Masahiro Tanaka will be posted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/masahirotanaka.jpg\" alt=\"masahirotanaka\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5439\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/masahirotanaka.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/masahirotanaka-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/masahirotanaka-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nSooner or later the Masahiro Tanaka saga will be over.<\/p>\n<p>The Rakuten Golden Eagles will either post the pitcher or keep him. Posting Tanaka stands to earn the Golden Eagles $20 million but its far less than the team had hoped as new posting rules limit Major League clubs from bidding more than $20 Million for any player posted by a Japanese club. Other Japanese clubs have earned north of $50 million via the posting system.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest twist two Japanese sources are reporting conflicing information.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Jiji in Japan report that Rakuten will not post Tanaka while earlier in the day another Japanese source in Sponichi reported that the pitcher would be posted.<\/p>\n<p>If Tanaka is posted there figures to be more than a dozen teams who bid the necessary $20 million. This story is long from being over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sooner or later the Masahiro Tanaka saga will be over. The Rakuten Golden Eagles will either post the pitcher or keep him. Posting Tanaka stands to earn the Golden Eagles $20 million but its far less than the team had hoped as new posting rules limit Major League clubs from bidding more than $20 Million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,458,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-5783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-masahiro-tanaka","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783","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=5783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5783"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}