{"id":51060,"date":"2004-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/dominican-stars-in-the-major-league-baseball\/"},"modified":"2004-04-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-13T00:00:00","slug":"dominican-stars-in-the-major-league-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/04\/13\/dominican-stars-in-the-major-league-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican stars in the Major League Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DR will be in the limelight in the US sports media as fans follow the athletic feats of the Dominicans who will be pulling in US$225 million in collective yearly wages from Major League Baseball teams. Topping the list is US$21.7 million-making Alex Rodriguez, born in the US to Dominican parents, who this year plays for the New York Yankees. Next in line is Dominican-born Manny Ramirez of the Boston Red Sox, who now earns US$20.4 million, followed by Boston Red Sox star pitcher Pedro Martinez, with US$17.5 million; Sammy Sosa, Moises Alou, and Aramis Ramirez of the Chicago Cubs with US$16.8 million, US$9.5 million, and US$6 million, respectively; Bartolo Colon and Vladimir Guerrero with the Anaheim Angels making US$11 million each; Alberto Pujols with the Seattle Mariners, making US$7 million; and Alfonso Soriano with the Texas Rangers, pulling in US$5.4 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DR will be in the limelight in the US sports media as fans follow the athletic feats of the Dominicans who will be pulling in US$225 million in collective yearly wages from Major League Baseball teams. Topping the list is US$21.7 million-making Alex Rodriguez, born in the US to Dominican parents, who this year &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/04\/13\/dominican-stars-in-the-major-league-baseball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,236,3,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}