{"id":11517,"date":"2019-03-23T12:29:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T16:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11517"},"modified":"2019-03-23T12:29:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T16:29:27","slug":"giants-release-rene-rivera-who-had-been-competing-to-be-backup-catcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2019\/03\/23\/giants-release-rene-rivera-who-had-been-competing-to-be-backup-catcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants release Rene Rivera who had been competing to be backup catcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11518\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/03\/renerivera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/03\/renerivera.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/03\/renerivera-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Giants released veteran backstop Rene Rivera on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera, 35, had been competing with Aramis Garcia and Cameron Rupp to serve as the backup to Buster Posey this season.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago Rivera split time between the Angels and Braves compiling a .233 batting average and four home runs across 33 games. Given that Rivera will only cost a minor league deal, there figures to be plenty of teams willing to stash him at the Triple-A level this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Giants released veteran backstop Rene Rivera on Saturday. Rivera, 35, had been competing with Aramis Garcia and Cameron Rupp to serve as the backup to Buster Posey this season. A year ago Rivera split time between the Angels and Braves compiling a .233 batting average and four home runs across 33 games. Given that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[53,501,1001,139],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-11517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-buster-posey","tag-mlb","tag-rene-rivera","tag-san-francisco-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517","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=11517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11519,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517\/revisions\/11519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11517"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}