{"id":5956,"date":"2014-01-16T10:53:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5956"},"modified":"2014-01-16T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:53:07","slug":"cubs-remain-interested-in-masahiro-tanaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/16\/cubs-remain-interested-in-masahiro-tanaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs remain interested in Masahiro Tanaka"},"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 \/>\nThe Chicago Cubs continue to be one of the teams interested in Masahrio Tanaka.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Rosenthal suggests that the Cubs are &#8220;pushing hard&#8221; to land the Japanese right hander.<\/p>\n<p>There has not been a lot of talk about the financials of a deal for Tanaka but with the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels, Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners and Arizona Diamondbacks also interested the 25-year-old should get a hefty sum.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Cubs&amp;src=hash\">#Cubs<\/a> pushing hard for Tanaka. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Angels&amp;src=hash\">#Angels<\/a> remain involved, along with others previously mentioned &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Yankees&amp;src=hash\">#Yankees<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Dodgers&amp;src=hash\">#Dodgers<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/423819744236826624\">January 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tanaka finished the 2013 season with the Rakuten Golden Eagles posting a 24-0 record and a 1.27 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs continue to be one of the teams interested in Masahrio Tanaka. Ken Rosenthal suggests that the Cubs are &#8220;pushing hard&#8221; to land the Japanese right hander. There has not been a lot of talk about the financials of a deal for Tanaka but with the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers and [&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":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956","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=5956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/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=5956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5956"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}