{"id":9512,"date":"2014-11-25T15:34:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T20:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9512"},"modified":"2014-11-25T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T20:34:14","slug":"daisuke-matsuzaka-set-to-return-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/25\/daisuke-matsuzaka-set-to-return-to-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Daisuke Matsuzaka set to return to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/daisukematsuzaka.jpg\" alt=\"daisukematsuzaka\" width=\"594\" height=\"424\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/daisukematsuzaka.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/daisukematsuzaka-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nJapanese pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka is set to return to Japan and pitch for the Fukoka Softbank Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>While a deal between the two is not official, it is just a formality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pitchers who can start are a valuable commodity, so we will do our best to get him,&#8221; said team president Yoshimitsu Goto. &#8220;We hope to get this done in the coming days.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Matsuzaka, now 34, last pitched in Japan in 2006 before leaving to sign with the Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p>In parts of eight big league seasons Matsuzaka will end his Major League carer with a 56-43 record, 4.45 ERA and a 1.40 WHIP. Last year with the Mets he appeared in 34 games making nine starts and finishing with a 3.89 ERA and a 1.34 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka is set to return to Japan and pitch for the Fukoka Softbank Hawks. While a deal between the two is not official, it is just a formality. &#8220;Pitchers who can start are a valuable commodity, so we will do our best to get him,&#8221; said team president Yoshimitsu Goto. &#8220;We hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[193,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-daisuke-matsuzaka","9":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512","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=9512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9514,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512\/revisions\/9514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9512"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}