{"id":5268,"date":"2013-11-21T20:13:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T01:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2013-11-21T20:13:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T01:13:55","slug":"royals-designate-george-kottaras-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/11\/21\/royals-designate-george-kottaras-for-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals designate George Kottaras for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5269\" alt=\"georgekottaras\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/georgekottaras.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/georgekottaras.jpg 640w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/georgekottaras-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Royals were likely to non-tender catcher George Kottaras. On Thursday the team designated him for assignment, moving him off the roster and making him a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>After signing Jason Vargas to a four-year deal earlier in the day the Royals needed a spot on their 40-man roster.e<\/p>\n<p>Kottaras hit just .180\/.349\/.370 in 126 plate appearances. Now at the age of 3o it appears unlikely that Kottaras will never be more than a back-up of minor league depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals were likely to non-tender catcher George Kottaras. On Thursday the team designated him for assignment, moving him off the roster and making him a free agent. After signing Jason Vargas to a four-year deal earlier in the day the Royals needed a spot on their 40-man roster.e Kottaras hit just .180\/.349\/.370 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268","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=5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}