{"id":4011,"date":"2013-07-29T11:04:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T15:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2013-07-29T11:04:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T15:04:23","slug":"detroit-tiger-acquire-right-hander-jose-veras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/29\/detroit-tiger-acquire-right-hander-jose-veras\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tiger acquire right- hander Jose Veras"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4012\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4012\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4012\" alt=\"veras\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/veras.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/veras.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/veras-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/veras-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J. Meric\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Detroit Tigers have added an arm to their bullpen. On Monday the Tigers reached a deal with the Houston Astros for right hander Jose Veras.<\/p>\n<p>Veras , 32, has been one of few bright spots for the Astros this season compiling a 2.93 ERA, 1.00 WHIP and 44\/14 K\/BB ratio in 43 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers plan to use him in a setup role ahead of Joaquin Benoit.<\/p>\n<p>Veras has a $3.25 million team option for 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for Veras the Astros acquired Danry Vasquez and a player to be named later.<\/p>\n<p>Vasquez, 19, had been playing at Low-A West Michigan and had a.281\/.333\/.390 line with five homers and nine steals through 96 games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Tigers have added an arm to their bullpen. On Monday the Tigers reached a deal with the Houston Astros for right hander Jose Veras. Veras , 32, has been one of few bright spots for the Astros this season compiling a 2.93 ERA, 1.00 WHIP and 44\/14 K\/BB ratio in 43 innings. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}