{"id":5903,"date":"2014-01-11T12:07:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T17:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5903"},"modified":"2014-01-11T12:11:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T17:11:28","slug":"alex-rodriguez-suspension-reduced-to-162-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/11\/alex-rodriguez-suspension-reduced-to-162-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Rodriguez suspension reduced to 162 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4256\" alt=\"alexrodriguezpre\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/alexrodriguezpre.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/alexrodriguezpre.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/alexrodriguezpre-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The suspension of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez has been reduced to 162 games.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, 38, was suspended for 211 games in August for alleged violations of baseball&#8217;s drug\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">agreement and labor contract following an\u00a0<\/span>investigation<span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0of the Biogenesis of America anti-aging clinic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2013 Rodriguez\u00a0appeared in 44 games compiling a .244\/.348\/.423 line with seven home runs and 19 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>A 162 game suspension would include the entire 2014 season. Rodriguez has already said he will appeal any suspension.<\/p>\n<p>If Rodriguez was to be suspended for the entire 2014 season the New York Yankees would save $25 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspension of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez has been reduced to 162 games. Rodriguez, 38, was suspended for 211 games in August for alleged violations of baseball&#8217;s drug\u00a0agreement and labor contract following an\u00a0investigation\u00a0of the Biogenesis of America anti-aging clinic. In 2013 Rodriguez\u00a0appeared in 44 games compiling a .244\/.348\/.423 line with seven home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[48,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alex-rodriguez","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903","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=5903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5903"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}