{"id":5848,"date":"2014-01-07T23:18:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T04:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2014-01-07T23:18:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T04:18:47","slug":"andruw-jones-staying-in-japan-re-signs-with-rakuten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/07\/andruw-jones-staying-in-japan-re-signs-with-rakuten\/","title":{"rendered":"Andruw Jones staying in Japan, re-signs with Rakuten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-729\" alt=\"andruwjones\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/andruwjones.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/andruwjones.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/andruwjones-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Andruw Jones has re-signed with the Rakuten Golden Eagles of\u00a0\u00a0Japan\u2019s Pacific League reports Chris Cotillo\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlbdailydish.com\/2014\/1\/7\/5285662\/andruw-jones-re-signs-with-rakuten-golden-eagles-in-japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">of MLB Daily Dish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The news is hardly a surprise as the 36-year-old figures to earn far more in Japan than he would stateside. There&#8217;s a good chance that Jones finishes his playing days in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Jones hit\u00a0.243\/.391\/.454 with 26 home runs and 94 RBI in 143 games being a nice part of a team that won the Japan League title.<\/p>\n<p>There was some reports that Jones had received interest from MLB clubs not none figured to offer guaranteed contracts.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Eagles paid him $3.6 million on a one-year deal for the 2013 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andruw Jones has re-signed with the Rakuten Golden Eagles of\u00a0\u00a0Japan\u2019s Pacific League reports Chris Cotillo\u00a0of MLB Daily Dish. The news is hardly a surprise as the 36-year-old figures to earn far more in Japan than he would stateside. There&#8217;s a good chance that Jones finishes his playing days in Japan. Last season Jones hit\u00a0.243\/.391\/.454 with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[596,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-5848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-andruw-jones","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848","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=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}