{"id":3206,"date":"2013-06-19T20:18:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T00:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3206"},"modified":"2013-06-19T20:18:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T00:18:59","slug":"rockies-to-option-jeff-francis-to-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/06\/19\/rockies-to-option-jeff-francis-to-triple-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies to option Jeff Francis to Triple-A"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1525\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1525\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1525\" alt=\"jefffrancis\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/jefffrancis.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/jefffrancis.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/jefffrancis-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Colorado Rockies will option starting pitcher Jeff Francis to Triple-A prior to Thursday&#8217;s game. Roy Oswalt will be called up on Thursday and assume the roster and rotation spot of Francis.<\/p>\n<p>Francis will have the option of choosing to become a free agent rather then report to Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>Interest from other teams should be thin as Francis has struggled with a 6.58 ERA and a 1.56 WHIP this year.<\/p>\n<p>Oswalt made has made five starts for Double-A Tulsa compiling a 2.16 ERA and a 0.93 WHIP in 33 1\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Rockies will option starting pitcher Jeff Francis to Triple-A prior to Thursday&#8217;s game. Roy Oswalt will be called up on Thursday and assume the roster and rotation spot of Francis. Francis will have the option of choosing to become a free agent rather then report to Colorado Springs. Interest from other teams should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[190,372],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-3206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-colorado-rockies","9":"tag-jeff-francis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","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=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}