{"id":3050,"date":"2013-06-09T18:49:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T22:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2013-06-09T18:49:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T22:49:17","slug":"mets-demote-ike-davis-and-others-after-loss-to-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/06\/09\/mets-demote-ike-davis-and-others-after-loss-to-marlins\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets demote Ike Davis and others after loss to Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3051\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3051\" alt=\"ikedavis\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/ikedavis.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/ikedavis.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/ikedavis-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The New York Mets have demoted first basemen Ike Davis. Marred in a 1-for-15 slump Davis had become a sign of the Mets struggles this season.<\/p>\n<p>Hitting just .161\/.242\/.258 on the year the 26-year-old Davis had higher expectations after hitting 32 home runs and driving in 90 last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe needs to be able to play every day and work on his swing without worrying about the outcome,\u201d GM Sandy Alderson told reporters after the Mets\u2019 8-4 loss to the Marlins in 10 innings on Sunday. \u201cWe think that this is in his best interest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It will not be hard for Davis to find friends in Las Vegas. The Mets also demoted outfielder Mike Baxter and left handed pitcher Robert Carson to Triple-A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Mets have demoted first basemen Ike Davis. Marred in a 1-for-15 slump Davis had become a sign of the Mets struggles this season. Hitting just .161\/.242\/.258 on the year the 26-year-old Davis had higher expectations after hitting 32 home runs and driving in 90 last season. \u201cHe needs to be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[363],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ike-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050","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=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}