{"id":5624,"date":"2013-12-15T10:25:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T15:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2013-12-15T10:25:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T15:25:26","slug":"cubs-shut-down-junior-lake-from-dominican-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/15\/cubs-shut-down-junior-lake-from-dominican-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs shut down Junior Lake from Dominican League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5625\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5625\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/juniorlake.jpg\" alt=\"getty imaes\" width=\"594\" height=\"498\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5625\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/juniorlake.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/juniorlake-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Chicago Cubs have shut down Junior Lake from appearing in an additional games in the Dominican Winter League.<\/p>\n<p>Lake, 23, was mashing leading the league with a .343 batting average and had a .843 OPS.<\/p>\n<p>After Lake had appeared in 27 games accumulating 105 at-bats the Cubs felt it was enough. The Cubs invoked the &#8220;fatigue&#8221; cause shutting Lake down.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put the Cubs want Lake to get some rest before Spring Training. He&#8217;s expected to be in the Cubs starting lineup this season whether in center or left field.<\/p>\n<p>Lake batted .295 in 40 games at Triple-A Iowa before receiving his first promotion to the majors and batting .284 with six home runs and 16 RBIs in 64 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs have shut down Junior Lake from appearing in an additional games in the Dominican Winter League. Lake, 23, was mashing leading the league with a .343 batting average and had a .843 OPS. After Lake had appeared in 27 games accumulating 105 at-bats the Cubs felt it was enough. The Cubs invoked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,568,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-cubs","9":"tag-junior-lake","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624","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=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}