{"id":5989,"date":"2014-01-18T13:03:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T18:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5989"},"modified":"2014-01-18T13:03:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T18:03:29","slug":"cubs-make-offer-to-masahiro-tanaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/18\/cubs-make-offer-to-masahiro-tanaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs make offer to Masahiro Tanaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5439\" alt=\"masahirotanaka\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/masahirotanaka.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" 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 suddenly have become the favorites for the services of Japanese right hander Masahiro Tanaka.<\/p>\n<p>Now Bruce Levine of 670 The Score out of Chicago has passed along news that the Cubs have made an offer to the 25-year-old.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Wake up tweeters! Cubs made Tanaka a real offer to be there ace and grow with their other talented young players.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bruce Levine (@MLBBruceLevine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBBruceLevine\/statuses\/424526437974958080\">January 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Multiple teams are known to have interest in Tanaka with the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks joining the Cubs as being most agressive.<\/p>\n<p>Tanaka has until Jan. 24 at 5 pm ET to sign a contract with a major league team. And of course we have to wonder just how Tanaka would look in the new Cubs <a title=\"Chicago Cubs unveil new road jersey\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/17\/chicago-cubs-unveil-new-road-jersey\/\">alternate road uniform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs suddenly have become the favorites for the services of Japanese right hander Masahiro Tanaka. Now Bruce Levine of 670 The Score out of Chicago has passed along news that the Cubs have made an offer to the 25-year-old. Wake up tweeters! Cubs made Tanaka a real offer to be there ace 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":[153,503,458,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-cubs","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-masahiro-tanaka","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989","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=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/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=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}