{"id":10341,"date":"2015-06-22T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10341"},"modified":"2015-06-22T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T17:27:00","slug":"braves-release-veteran-catcher-wil-nieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/06\/22\/braves-release-veteran-catcher-wil-nieves\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves release veteran catcher Wil Nieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10342\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/06\/wilnieves.jpg\" alt=\"wilnieves\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/06\/wilnieves.jpg 640w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/06\/wilnieves-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After being designated for assignment by the San Diego Padres in May, Wil Nieves inked a minor league deal with the Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n<p>Nieves, 37, has been serving as a catcher for the Braves Triple-A affiliate but was hitting just .238\/.324\/.286 and now finds himself again looking for a job.<\/p>\n<p>This could very well be the end of the line for Nieves who never produced much during his time at the big league level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being designated for assignment by the San Diego Padres in May, Wil Nieves inked a minor league deal with the Atlanta Braves. Nieves, 37, has been serving as a catcher for the Braves Triple-A affiliate but was hitting just .238\/.324\/.286 and now finds himself again looking for a job. This could very well be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,961],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-wil-nieves"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10343,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10341\/revisions\/10343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10341"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}