{"id":7167,"date":"2014-04-09T11:12:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T15:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7167"},"modified":"2014-04-09T11:12:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T15:12:26","slug":"jason-giambi-to-begin-minor-league-assignment-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/09\/jason-giambi-to-begin-minor-league-assignment-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Giambi to begin minor league assignment on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/jasongiambi.jpg\" alt=\"jasongiambi\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/jasongiambi.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/jasongiambi-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jason Giambi of the Cleveland Indians is set to begin a minor league rehab assignment on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Giambi, 43, will be assigned to Double-A Akron where he expects to spend several games before rejoining the Indians next week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Indians&amp;src=hash\">#Indians<\/a> injury rehab news: Michael Bourn will continue rehab at Double-A Akron tomorrow. Jason Giambi will play for Akron on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nick Camino (@NickCaminoWTAM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickCaminoWTAM\/statuses\/453906419838767104\">April 9, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Giambi broke a rib while being struck by a pitch in early Marach.<\/p>\n<p>As a part-time player last season for the Indians, Giambi appeared in 71 games last season hitting .183\/.282\/.303 hitting nine home runs and driving in 31 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Giambi of the Cleveland Indians is set to begin a minor league rehab assignment on Friday. Giambi, 43, will be assigned to Double-A Akron where he expects to spend several games before rejoining the Indians next week. #Indians injury rehab news: Michael Bourn will continue rehab at Double-A Akron tomorrow. Jason Giambi will play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[156,197,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cleveland-indians","9":"tag-jason-giambi","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167","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=7167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7169,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions\/7169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7167"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}