{"id":4579,"date":"2013-08-30T09:29:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T13:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2013-08-30T09:29:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T13:29:24","slug":"indians-pick-up-jason-kubel-from-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/30\/indians-pick-up-jason-kubel-from-diamondbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians pick up Jason Kubel from Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4541\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4541\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4541\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/jasonkubel.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/jasonkubel.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/jasonkubel-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jason Kubel is out of the desert. The outfielder was designated for assignment earlier this week and has now been traded to Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Diamondbacks designated the 31-year-old for assignment earlier this week to make room on the active roster for pitcher David Holmberg.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indians:<\/strong> <a title=\"Indians release Brett Myers\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/29\/indians-release-brett-myers\/\">Activate then cut Brett Myers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kubel hit a mere .220 with five home runs and 32 RBI for the Diamondbacks in 89 games before being DFA&#8217;d.<\/p>\n<p>The deal between Arizona and Cleveland includes a minor leaguer going to Arizona as well as cash. Kubel has a $1 million buyout for the 2014 season.Full details of the deal will be announced early Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Kubel is out of the desert. The outfielder was designated for assignment earlier this week and has now been traded to Cleveland. The Arizona Diamondbacks designated the 31-year-old for assignment earlier this week to make room on the active roster for pitcher David Holmberg. Indians: Activate then cut Brett Myers Kubel hit a mere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[125,156,453],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","9":"tag-cleveland-indians","10":"tag-jason-kubel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","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=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}