{"id":6029,"date":"2014-01-22T09:53:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T14:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2014-01-22T11:58:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T16:58:12","slug":"masahiro-tankana-chooses-yankees-nets-seven-year-deal-worth-155-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/22\/masahiro-tankana-chooses-yankees-nets-seven-year-deal-worth-155-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees and Masahiro Tanaka reach seven-year deal worth $155 million"},"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\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The New York Yankees were expected to go after Japanese pitcher Masahiro Tanaka and on Wednesday they landed him.<\/p>\n<p>Tanaka will get $155 million over a seven-year deal from the Yankees. The deal also includes an opt out clause after the fourth-year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The Yankees needed Tanaka and they got him: 7 years, $155m., with an opt-out after the fourth year.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Buster_ESPN\/statuses\/426002764494163969\">January 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Other teams who were known to be seeking the 27-year-old right hander included the Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees were expected to go after Japanese pitcher Masahiro Tanaka and on Wednesday they landed him. Tanaka will get $155 million over a seven-year deal from the Yankees. The deal also includes an opt out clause after the fourth-year. The Yankees needed Tanaka and they got him: 7 years, $155m., with an [&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-6029","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\/6029","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=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/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=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}