{"id":5945,"date":"2014-01-15T09:26:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T14:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2014-01-15T09:27:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T14:27:38","slug":"kershaw-and-dodgers-on-verge-of-mega-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/15\/kershaw-and-dodgers-on-verge-of-mega-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kershaw and Dodgers on verge of mega-deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Los Angeles Dodgers may be among the teams pursuing Japanese pitcher Masahiro Tanaka but that will not stop the club from signing two-time Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw to an extension.<\/p>\n

FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal reports<\/a> that Kershaw and the Dodgers could agree to “a record-breaking deal this week.”<\/p>\n

Kershaw and the Dodgers were said to be close to a seven-year extension worth $210 million in August before the Dodgers back out. Of course things will not get any cheaper for the Dodgers as Kershaw figures to ask for a record salary in arbitration this year.<\/p>\n

Kershaw has lead the National League in ERA in each of the last three seasons posting a 1.83 ERA in 2013 while capturing his second Cy Young Award.<\/p>\n

The record deal for a pitcher is Justin Verlander’s seven-year $180 million deal with the Tigers. It’s worth mentioning that Kershaw has the same agent as teammate Zack Greinke who landed a six-year deal worth $147 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Dodgers may be among the teams pursuing Japanese pitcher Masahiro Tanaka but that will not stop the club from signing two-time Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw to an extension. FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal reports that Kershaw and the Dodgers could agree to “a record-breaking deal this week.” Kershaw and the Dodgers were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,213],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-zack-greinke"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945","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=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}