{"id":2862,"date":"2013-05-30T10:38:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T14:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2013-05-30T17:14:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T21:14:14","slug":"braves-promote-alex-wood-place-in-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/05\/30\/braves-promote-alex-wood-place-in-bullpen\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves promote Alex Wood, designate Juan Francisco for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2863\" alt=\"alexwood\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/alexwood.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/alexwood.jpg 500w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/alexwood-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta Braves have called up left handed pitcher Alex Wood. While Wood has been serving as a dominating starting pitcher at Double-A, he will move to the bullpen at the major league level.<\/p>\n<p>Wood has a 1.26 ERA, 0.98 WHIP and a 57\/15 K\/BB ratio though 10 starts for the Mississippi Braves.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball America ranked Wood as the Braves seventh best prospect. He was selected in the second round of last years MLB Draft.<\/p>\n<p>In order to make room for Wood on the active roster the Braves designated Juan Francisco for assignment. Francisco was part of a platoon at third base but was hitting just .241\/.287\/.398 with five home runs in 35 games for the Braves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves have called up left handed pitcher Alex Wood. While Wood has been serving as a dominating starting pitcher at Double-A, he will move to the bullpen at the major league level. Wood has a 1.26 ERA, 0.98 WHIP and a 57\/15 K\/BB ratio though 10 starts for the Mississippi Braves. Baseball America [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[349,28],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-2862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alex-wood","9":"tag-atlanta-braves"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","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=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}