{"id":82234,"date":"2012-11-25T09:16:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T00:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30288"},"modified":"2016-04-01T03:02:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:02:47","slug":"bryan-lahair-leaves-chicago-cubs-to-join-fukuoka-softbank-hawks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/bryan-lahair-leaves-chicago-cubs-to-join-fukuoka-softbank-hawks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Lahair Leaves Chicago Cubs To Join Fukuoka Softbank Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 22, 2012, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks said that they signed LaHair to a two-year, $4.5 million dollar contract. LaHair can opt out of the deal after 2013, and the deal is worth $5.2 million when the signing bonus and buyout are added. The deal has $2 million in incentives each year, and the Cubs received $950,000 in the deal. An unlikely 2012 All-Star in his first full season in the major leagues, LaHair, 30, batted .286 with 14 home runs and 30 RBIs before the All-Star break but fell to .202 with two home runs and 10 RBIs after it. He lost the first-base job to top prospect Anthony Rizzo in June and served as a bench player the rest of the season. Source: http:\/\/espn.go.com\/chicago\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/8657939\/chicago-cubs-designate-bryan-lahair-agrees-fukuoka-softbank-hawks<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/baseball.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/baseball.jpeg?resize=443%2C599\" alt=\"\" title=\"baseball\" width=\"443\" height=\"599\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/baseball.jpeg?w=443&amp;ssl=1 443w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/baseball.jpeg?resize=221%2C300&amp;ssl=1 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 22, 2012, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks said that they signed LaHair to a two-year, $4.5 million dollar contract. LaHair can opt out of the deal after 2013, and the deal is worth $5.2 million when the signing bonus and buyout are added. The deal has $2 million in incentives each year, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-82234","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/82234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}