{"id":5954,"date":"2014-01-15T20:26:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T01:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2014-01-15T20:26:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T01:26:59","slug":"hal-steinbrenner-a-rod-is-an-asset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/15\/hal-steinbrenner-a-rod-is-an-asset\/","title":{"rendered":"Hal Steinbrenner: A-Rod is &#8220;an asset&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4753\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4753\" alt=\"Source: Elsa\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/alexrodriguezgs.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/alexrodriguezgs.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/alexrodriguezgs-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Elsa\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of all the things people have called Alex Rodriguez in the past year, asset has to be one of the funniest.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking publicly Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner called the third baseman &#8220;an asset.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u201cHe\u2019s a great player,\u201d Steinbrenner said via the <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/01\/15\/hal-steinbrenner-doesnt-rule-out-a-rod-for-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Post<\/a>. \u201cI have not thought about 2015, nor am I going to right now. My focus has to be right now. But when he\u2019s on and when he\u2019s healthy, he\u2019s obviously an asset. We\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Even with Rodriguez being suspended for the entire season the Yankees will still owe the slugger nearly $3 million this season and $61 million from 2015 though 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Alex Rodriguez is healthy and himself, I think most objective baseball people would say he could be an asset to a club.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the things people have called Alex Rodriguez in the past year, asset has to be one of the funniest. Speaking publicly Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner called the third baseman &#8220;an asset.&#8221; \u201cHe\u2019s a great player,\u201d Steinbrenner said via the New York Post. \u201cI have not thought about 2015, nor am I going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[48,503,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alex-rodriguez","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954","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=5954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5954"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}