{"id":11221,"date":"2018-07-22T22:48:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T02:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11221"},"modified":"2018-07-22T22:48:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T02:48:47","slug":"phillies-option-aaron-altherr-and-mark-leiter-to-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/07\/22\/phillies-option-aaron-altherr-and-mark-leiter-to-triple-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies option Aaron Altherr and Mark Leiter to Triple-A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11222\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/07\/aaronaltherr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/07\/aaronaltherr.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/07\/aaronaltherr-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Phillies have optioned outfielder Aaron Altherr and pitcher Mark Leiter to Triple-A Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a downright dreadful year for Altherr. The 27-year-old has produced just a .171\/.290\/.305 batting line to go with six homers and 33 RBI across 248 trips to the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually the Phillies figure to give Altherr another chance to stick with the club but he will have to prove at Triple-A that the .272\/.340\/.516 line with 19 homers from 2017 was no fluke.<\/p>\n<p>Leiter, 27, has bounced back and forth between Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley this year. He pitched in Sunday&#8217;s game allowing three runs in two innings of work raising his ERA to 5.74 on the year in 15 2\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pb\">\n<div class=\"report\">\n<p>Phillies optioned OF Aaron Altherr to Triple-A Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"impact\">The 27-year-old outfielder has been a major disappointment this season, slashing a ghastly .171\/.290\/.305 with six homers and 33 RBI in his 248 plate appearances. He&#8217;ll try to figure things out playing everyday at Triple-A and should get another shot in Philadelphia before the end of the season. He can be cut loose in any redraft leagues where he still might be owned.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phillies have optioned outfielder Aaron Altherr and pitcher Mark Leiter to Triple-A Lehigh Valley. It has been a downright dreadful year for Altherr. The 27-year-old has produced just a .171\/.290\/.305 batting line to go with six homers and 33 RBI across 248 trips to the plate. Eventually the Phillies figure to give Altherr another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[1062,503,1063,501,109],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aaron-altherr","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mark-leiter","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-philadelphia-phillies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11221","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=11221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11223,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11221\/revisions\/11223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11221"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}