{"id":1756,"date":"2013-03-26T11:55:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T15:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2013-03-26T12:01:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T16:01:47","slug":"jordan-schafer-earns-roster-spot-with-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/03\/26\/jordan-schafer-earns-roster-spot-with-braves\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Schafer earns roster spot with Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1757\" alt=\"jordanschafer\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/jordanschafer.jpg\" width=\"676\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/jordanschafer.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/jordanschafer-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/jordanschafer-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jordan Schafer earned the starting job in center field in 2009 for the Braves. Four years later the now 26-year-old outfielder returns to the Braves as a bench player.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday the Braves announced that Schafer had made their opening day roster albeit as a backup. The team also announced that pitcher David Carpenter, infielder Tyler Pastornicky, and outfielder Jose Costanza would begin the season in the minors.<\/p>\n<p>A lot has changed with the Braves since Schafer first appeared in the big leagues with the team. The outfield will consist of BJ and Justin Upton and Jason Heyward.<\/p>\n<p>Schafer hardly earned the roster spot this spring. He managed just a .241\/.323\/.293 line over 65 plate appearances but he was out of minor league options which would have left him open for another team to sign.<\/p>\n<p>In July of 2011 the Braves traded Schafer and a pair of minor league pitcher to Houston for Michael Bourn. This past November they claimed him off waivers from Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Schafer earned the starting job in center field in 2009 for the Braves. Four years later the now 26-year-old outfielder returns to the Braves as a bench player. On Tuesday the Braves announced that Schafer had made their opening day roster albeit as a backup. The team also announced that pitcher David Carpenter, infielder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,247],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-jordan-schafer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","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=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}