{"id":27743,"date":"2014-12-26T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-kuroda-to-pitch-in-japan-in-2015\/"},"modified":"2014-12-26T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T21:31:00","slug":"report-kuroda-to-pitch-in-japan-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-kuroda-to-pitch-in-japan-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Kuroda to pitch in Japan in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Free agent pitcher Hiroki Kuroda will return to his native Japan and play for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp for the 2015 season, according to a report by Yahoo! Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Kuroda, who spent the last three seasons with the New York Yankees, previously pitched for the Toyo Carp from 1997-2007 before embarking on a seven-year tenure in the majors that began with the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old won the Nippon Professional Baseball ERA title in 2006 and received a Best Nine Award, recognizing the NPB&#8217;s best player at his position, the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Kuroda compiled a 79-79 record and a 3.45 ERA over seven seasons with the Dodgers and Yankees, winning a career-best 16 games in his first year with New York in 2012. He started at least 31 games six times during his time in North America.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran right-hander went 11-9 with a 3.71 ERA in 32 starts with the Yankees last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees had already prepared for Kuroda&#8217;s possible departure or retirement during this offseason, filling rotation spots by re-signing Chris Capuano and acquiring Nathan Eovaldi in a recent trade with Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Free agent pitcher Hiroki Kuroda will return to his native Japan and play for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp for the 2015 season, according to a report by Yahoo! Japan. Kuroda, who spent the last three seasons with the New York Yankees, previously pitched for the Toyo Carp from 1997-2007 before embarking on a [&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":[59,58,60],"class_list":["post-27743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27743","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=27743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}