{"id":6737,"date":"2014-03-17T10:36:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T14:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6737"},"modified":"2014-03-17T10:36:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T14:36:22","slug":"astros-tab-scott-feldman-for-opening-day-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/17\/astros-tab-scott-feldman-for-opening-day-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros tab Scott Feldman for Opening Day assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/scottfeldman.jpg\" alt=\"scottfeldman\" width=\"594\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6738\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/scottfeldman.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/scottfeldman-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Houston Astros have confirmed what many thought. Scott Feldman will be the club&#8217;s Opening Day starter.<\/p>\n<p>Feldman, 31, inked a three-year deal with the Astros over the winter worth 30 million.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Feldman spent time split between the Chicago Cubs and Baltimore Orioles posting a 3.68 ERA and a 1.18 WHIP.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Feldman will start opening day for Astros<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianmctaggart\/statuses\/445553692079849473\">March 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen how the Astros will stack up the rest of their rotation. The team is expected to contend for the No. 1 overall pick next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Astros have confirmed what many thought. Scott Feldman will be the club&#8217;s Opening Day starter. Feldman, 31, inked a three-year deal with the Astros over the winter worth 30 million. Last season Feldman spent time split between the Chicago Cubs and Baltimore Orioles posting a 3.68 ERA and a 1.18 WHIP. Feldman will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[93,501,324],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-houston-astros","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-scott-feldman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737","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=6737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6739,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions\/6739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6737"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}