{"id":4639,"date":"2013-09-09T10:11:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4639"},"modified":"2013-09-09T10:11:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:11:04","slug":"braves-promote-catcher-christian-bethancourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/09\/09\/braves-promote-catcher-christian-bethancourt\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves promote catcher Christian Bethancourt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4640\" alt=\"beta\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/beta.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/beta.jpg 640w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/beta-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta Braves have promoted catching prospect Christian Bethancourt to the major league roster.<\/p>\n<p>Bethancourt, 22, spent the 2013 season with Double-A Mississippi and could be the Braves Opening Day catcher as early as next season if Brian McCann is not re-signed.<\/p>\n<p>With Double-A Mississippi, Bethancourt hit\u00a0 .277\/.305\/.436 with 12 homers and 45 RBI in 90 games. He is likely to receive limited playing time this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves have promoted catching prospect Christian Bethancourt to the major league roster. Bethancourt, 22, spent the 2013 season with Double-A Mississippi and could be the Braves Opening Day catcher as early as next season if Brian McCann is not re-signed. With Double-A Mississippi, Bethancourt hit\u00a0 .277\/.305\/.436 with 12 homers and 45 RBI in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,469],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-4639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-christian-bethancourt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639","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=4639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4639"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}