{"id":13287,"date":"2014-01-24T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-ink-dice-k-to-minor-league-deal\/"},"modified":"2014-01-24T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T15:57:00","slug":"mets-ink-dice-k-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-ink-dice-k-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets ink Dice-K to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Mets have signed pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training.<\/p>\n<p>The once highly touted right-hander from Japan appeared in seven games for the Mets last season, posting a 3-3 record with a 4.42 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Matsuzaka spent the first six seasons (2007-2012) of his career with Boston, who won the bidding rights to the Japanese star with a bid over $51 million.<\/p>\n<p>In 123 career starts with the Red Sox and Mets, Matsuzaka is 53-40 with a 4.52 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Mets have signed pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training. The once highly touted right-hander from Japan appeared in seven games for the Mets last season, posting a 3-3 record with a 4.42 ERA. Matsuzaka spent the first six seasons (2007-2012) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[187,59,186],"class_list":["post-13287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}