{"id":4620,"date":"2013-09-05T15:48:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T19:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4620"},"modified":"2013-09-05T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T19:48:04","slug":"astros-claim-eric-thames-off-waivers-from-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/09\/05\/astros-claim-eric-thames-off-waivers-from-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros claim Eric Thames off waivers from O&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4621\" alt=\"thames\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/thames.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/thames.jpg 620w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/thames-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Houston Astros will take a gamble on Eric Thames as they claimed the 26-year-old outfielder off waivers from Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>Thames never appeared in a big league game for the Orioles after being acquired in a trade with the Seattle Mariners. In 36 games for Triple-A the outfielder hit .252\/.315\/.356 with three homers and 13 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>In 181 career games Thames has a .250\/.296\/.431 line. He has 21 big league home runs and is a low risk gamble for the Astros.<\/p>\n<p>Thames is a former seventh round pick of the Toronto Blue Jays from the 2008 draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Astros will take a gamble on Eric Thames as they claimed the 26-year-old outfielder off waivers from Baltimore. Thames never appeared in a big league game for the Orioles after being acquired in a trade with the Seattle Mariners. In 36 games for Triple-A the outfielder hit .252\/.315\/.356 with three homers and 13 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620","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=4620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4620"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}