{"id":6286,"date":"2014-02-07T19:06:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T00:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6286"},"modified":"2014-02-07T19:06:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T00:06:02","slug":"alex-rodriguez-drops-lawsuits-against-mlb-and-bud-selig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/07\/alex-rodriguez-drops-lawsuits-against-mlb-and-bud-selig\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Rodriguez drops lawsuits against MLB and Bud Selig."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4753\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/alexrodriguezgs.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Elsa\/Getty Images North America\" width=\"594\" height=\"486\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4753\" 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><br \/>\nAlex Rodriguez has abandoned his lawsuits against Major League Baseball, commissioner Bud selig and the Major League Baseball Players Association.<\/p>\n<p>Last month Rodriguez&#8217;s 211-game suspension was reduced to 162 games plus the 2014 playoffs by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez&#8217; attorney, Joe Tacopina has confirmed to <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/new-york\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/10420424\/alex-rodriguez-new-york-yankees-withdraws-lawsuit-overturn-suspension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPNNewYork.com<\/a> that a notice of voluntary dismissal was filed in the cases Friday afternoon but no explanation was given and no further details were provided as to the reason.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez will lose $25 million in salary for the 2014 season. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alex Rodriguez has done the right thing by withdrawing his lawsuit,&#8221; the MLBPA said in a statement. &#8220;His decision to move forward is in everyone&#8217;s best interest.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Rodriguez has abandoned his lawsuits against Major League Baseball, commissioner Bud selig and the Major League Baseball Players Association. Last month Rodriguez&#8217;s 211-game suspension was reduced to 162 games plus the 2014 playoffs by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz. Rodriguez&#8217; attorney, Joe Tacopina has confirmed to ESPNNewYork.com that a notice of voluntary dismissal was filed in [&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-6286","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\/6286","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=6286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/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=6286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6286"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}