{"id":8831,"date":"2014-08-14T14:56:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T18:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8831"},"modified":"2014-08-14T14:56:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T18:56:14","slug":"yankees-expecting-alex-rodriguez-back-in-lineup-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/14\/yankees-expecting-alex-rodriguez-back-in-lineup-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees expecting Alex Rodriguez back in lineup in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4346\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4346\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/alexrodriguezhr.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"393\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/alexrodriguezhr.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/alexrodriguezhr-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAlex Rodriguez&#8217;s one-year ban will end at the end of the 2014 season at which time he will return to the New York Yankees says owner Hal Steinbrenner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what he\u2019s planning for. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re planning for,\u201d Steinbrenner said on Wednesday, via <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2014\/08\/14\/hal-steinbrenner-expects-fit-a-rod-on-yankees-in-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CBS New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, 39, has $61 million owed to him by the Yankees and Steinbrenner opted to promote the hard work the former star has been putting in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s fit,\u201d Steinbrenner said. \u201cAlex is a hard worker. Alex will be ready. We\u2019ll just have to go from there, see how he does, see how he responds to playing every day in spring training. Point is, he\u2019s in good shape. And that\u2019s not surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Rodriguez&#8217;s one-year ban will end at the end of the 2014 season at which time he will return to the New York Yankees says owner Hal Steinbrenner. \u201cThat\u2019s what he\u2019s planning for. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re planning for,\u201d Steinbrenner said on Wednesday, via CBS New York. Rodriguez, 39, has $61 million owed to him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[48,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-alex-rodriguez","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8832,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions\/8832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8831"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}