{"id":9987,"date":"2015-01-24T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9987"},"modified":"2015-01-24T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T06:06:00","slug":"marlins-reach-one-year-deal-with-ichiro-suzuki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/01\/24\/marlins-reach-one-year-deal-with-ichiro-suzuki\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins reach one-year deal with Ichiro Suzuki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/ichiro.jpg\" alt=\"ichiro\" width=\"660\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9863\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/ichiro.jpg 660w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/ichiro-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Marlins have signed outfielder Ichiro Suzuki to a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Suzuki, 41, will have his deal officially announced after the two sides work out a few remaining details. The deal will pay him $2 million for the 2015 season.<\/p>\n<p>With Giancarlo Stanton in right field, Christian Yelich in left and Marcell Ozuna in center the Marlins will begin the season with Suzuki on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Entering his 15th major league season, Suzuki has 2,844 career hits &#8211; 156 shy of reaching the 3,000 milestone. His 4,122 professional hits between Japan and MLB are 134 shy of Pete Rose&#8217;s career total of 4,256 but trying to compare the Japan league to MLB has proven to be a failed concept.<\/p>\n<p>Suzuki will almost surely need two seasons to have a shot at the 3,000 hit mark. The Marlins were said to be talking with Suzuki about two year deals hoping to capitalize on the press of him chasing the milestone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marlins have signed outfielder Ichiro Suzuki to a one-year deal. Suzuki, 41, will have his deal officially announced after the two sides work out a few remaining details. The deal will pay him $2 million for the 2015 season. With Giancarlo Stanton in right field, Christian Yelich in left and Marcell Ozuna in center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[58,24],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ichiro-suzuki","9":"tag-miami-marlins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987","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=9987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9988,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987\/revisions\/9988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9987"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}