{"id":4663,"date":"2012-09-28T11:14:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T16:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2012-09-28T11:14:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T16:14:49","slug":"twins-release-nishioka-at-his-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4663","title":{"rendered":"Twins Release Nishioka, At His Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/twonslogo1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1317\" title=\"twinslogo\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/twonslogo1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; The Minnesota Twins have released Tsuyoshi Nishioka, ending their experiment with the Japanese middleinfielder after two rough years.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Twins said Friday that the move came at Nishioka&#8217;s request.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Twins said Nishioka decided to relieve the team of its<br \/>\nremaining financial commitment on his contract, which included a $3<br \/>\nmillion salary for the 2013 season and a $250,000 buyout.<\/p>\n<p>So they don&#8217;t owe him any more money, and Nishioka is now a free agent.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In a statement released by the Twins, Nishioka thanked the<br \/>\norganization for the opportunity and took &#8220;full responsibility&#8221; for his performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; The Minnesota Twins have released Tsuyoshi Nishioka, ending their experiment with the Japanese middleinfielder after two rough years. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Twins said Friday that the move came at Nishioka&#8217;s request. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Twins said Nishioka decided to relieve the team of its remaining financial commitment on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4664,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions\/4664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}