{"id":766,"date":"2012-12-09T21:44:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T02:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=766"},"modified":"2012-12-09T21:49:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T02:49:04","slug":"dodgers-agree-to-deal-with-hyun-jin-ryu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/09\/dodgers-agree-to-deal-with-hyun-jin-ryu\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers agree to deal with Hyun-Jin Ryu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Los Angeles Dodgers just keep sending money this off season. A day after adding Zack Greinke to an already crowded rotation the team has worked out a deal with Korean born pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu.<\/p>\n

Earlier this off season the Dodgers won rights to negotiate with Ryu after forking over a $25.74 million posting fee. The contract with the pitcher himself will set the Dodgers back another $36 million over the next six seasons reports<\/a> Jon Heyman.<\/p>\n

To recap the Dodgers current rotation. They have Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke set to occupy the top two spots and then it gets a little murky.<\/p>\n

Josh Becket, Chad Billingsley, Ted Lilly, Chris Capuano, Aaron Hargan and Ryu will all figure to\u00a0 expect to fill the other three spots. With a payroll well north of $200 million for next season the Dodgers are clearly not concerned with the luxury tax and are in trying to win at all costs.<\/p>\n

The 6-1, 215-pound Ryu is a strikeout pitcher with a fastball in the low-90s, a changeup and a slider. He helped Korea to the finals of the 2009 World Baseball Classic and the gold medal in the 2008 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

Ryu struck out 210 over 182 2\/3 innings this past season and has a career 2.80 ERA.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers bid of Ryu is third among bids submitted to Asian players via the posting system behind bids for Yu Darvish and Daisuke Matsuzaka.<\/p>\n

In 1994 the Dodgers welcomed the first South Korean-born player to the Major League when they signed Chan Ho Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Dodgers just keep sending money this off season. A day after adding Zack Greinke to an already crowded rotation the team has worked out a deal with Korean born pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu. Earlier this off season the Dodgers won rights to negotiate with Ryu after forking over a $25.74 million posting fee. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[81,130],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-hyun-jin-ryu","9":"tag-los-angelels-dodgers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","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=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}