{"id":4633,"date":"2013-09-07T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T19:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4633"},"modified":"2013-09-07T15:54:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T19:54:04","slug":"pirates-let-go-of-pitcher-james-mcdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/09\/07\/pirates-let-go-of-pitcher-james-mcdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates let go of pitcher James McDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4634\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4634\" alt=\"getty\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/jamesmcdonald.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/jamesmcdonald.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/jamesmcdonald-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates released pitcher James McDonald on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald, 28, had a great first half to the 2012 season but has struggled since. He has been out since June 21 with shoulder discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>In six games this season McDonald was 2-2 with a 5.76 ERA and a 1.65 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>With a career 4.20 ERA and 1.40 WHIP there figures to be at-least one team that will give McDonald another shot at a roster spot. He should be ready to go for spring training next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates released pitcher James McDonald on Saturday. McDonald, 28, had a great first half to the 2012 season but has struggled since. He has been out since June 21 with shoulder discomfort. In six games this season McDonald was 2-2 with a 5.76 ERA and a 1.65 WHIP. With a career 4.20 ERA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[468,112],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-james-mcdonald","9":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633","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=4633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}