{"id":9339,"date":"2014-11-10T19:14:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T00:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9339"},"modified":"2014-11-10T19:14:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T00:14:06","slug":"yankees-expect-hiroki-kuroda-to-pitch-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/10\/yankees-expect-hiroki-kuroda-to-pitch-next-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees expect Hiroki Kuroda to pitch next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/hirokikuroda.jpg\" alt=\"hirokikuroda\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2693\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/hirokikuroda.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/hirokikuroda-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nNew York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman is expected pitcher Hiroki Kuroda to play in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Set to turn 40 in February, Kuroda is reportedly considering retirement. However after posting a 3.71 ERA, a 1.17 WHIP, and a 146\/35 K\/BB ratio over 199 innings for the Yankees in 2014 one can see why he would return for another season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Cashman on Hiroki Kuroda: &quot;I\u2019d be surprised if he doesn\u2019t play.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Feinsand (@FeinsandNYDN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FeinsandNYDN\/status\/531949347554881536\">November 10, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cashman has not ruled out the Yankees re-signing Kuroda saying it &#8220;just depends when (he decides if he&#8217;ll pitch) and what kind of money we have to play with by the time that happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is also a chance that Kuroda could opt to make a return to Japan next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman is expected pitcher Hiroki Kuroda to play in 2015. Set to turn 40 in February, Kuroda is reportedly considering retirement. However after posting a 3.71 ERA, a 1.17 WHIP, and a 146\/35 K\/BB ratio over 199 innings for the Yankees in 2014 one can see why he would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[340,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-hiroki-kuroda","9":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339","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=9339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9340,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339\/revisions\/9340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9339"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}