{"id":4671,"date":"2013-09-13T10:38:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T14:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4671"},"modified":"2013-09-13T10:38:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T14:38:40","slug":"pirates-outright-james-mcdonald-to-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/09\/13\/pirates-outright-james-mcdonald-to-triple-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates outright James McDonald to Triple-A"},"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 have optioned James McDonald to Triple-A Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>There season is over, and so is the season of\u00a0 McDonald.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald, 28, went unclaimed on waivers and the Pirates were required to make a decision on his status. Despite being owed just a fraction of his $3.025 million salary no team was willing to take a gamble on McDonald.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a steep decline for McDonald since the All-Star break last season. This year McDonald appeared in six games with the Pirates compiling a 5.76 ERA and a 1.65 WHIP.McDonald is expected to be non-tendered in the off-season and should be one of the more interesting back of the rotation options during free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates have optioned James McDonald to Triple-A Indianapolis. There season is over, and so is the season of\u00a0 McDonald. McDonald, 28, went unclaimed on waivers and the Pirates were required to make a decision on his status. Despite being owed just a fraction of his $3.025 million salary no team was willing to [&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":[468,112],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-james-mcdonald","8":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671","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=4671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4671"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}