{"id":9440,"date":"2014-11-19T18:17:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T23:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9440"},"modified":"2014-11-19T18:17:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T23:17:48","slug":"dan-haren-threatens-retirement-if-traded-from-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/19\/dan-haren-threatens-retirement-if-traded-from-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Haren threatens retirement if traded from Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9441\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/danharen.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"382\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9441\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/danharen.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/danharen-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/danharen-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nDan Haren does not have a no trade clause but judging from the pitcher&#8217;s statements that he will retire if traded away from Southern California one could argue he does.<\/p>\n<p>Haren told <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/losangeles\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/11904382\/dan-haren-los-angeles-dodgers-rather-retire-pitch-la?ex_cid=espnapi_public\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN Los Angeles<\/a> that he would likely walk away and leave $10 million in salary if the Dodgers traded him anywhere outside of his former team in the Angels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My signing with the Dodgers last year and my decision to exercise my player option were based on my desire to play in Southern California near my family,&#8221; Haren told ESPN in an email. &#8220;I had other opportunities but at this point in my career I have no interest in playing in a city away from my family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A native of West Covina, California the 34-year-old Haren was unhappy pitching for the Washington Nationals in 2013 due to the distance from his family.<\/p>\n<p>Haren finished the 2014 season 13-11 with a 4.02 ERA. He currently is slated to be the Dodgers No. 4 pitcher this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Haren does not have a no trade clause but judging from the pitcher&#8217;s statements that he will retire if traded away from Southern California one could argue he does. Haren told ESPN Los Angeles that he would likely walk away and leave $10 million in salary if the Dodgers traded him anywhere outside of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[71,503,135,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dan-haren","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440","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=9440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9442,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440\/revisions\/9442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9440"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}