{"id":7274,"date":"2014-04-16T09:50:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T13:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7274"},"modified":"2014-04-16T09:50:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T13:50:30","slug":"astros-promote-george-springer-to-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/16\/astros-promote-george-springer-to-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros promote George Springer to roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/georgespringer.jpg\" alt=\"georgespringer\" width=\"655\" height=\"451\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/georgespringer.jpg 655w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/georgespringer-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Houston Astros will add George Springer to their active roster prior to Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n<p>Springer was 3-for-4 with a grand slam on Tuesday night for Triple-A Oklahoma City. He has had a strong start to the minor league season posting a .353 average with three homers, nine RBI and four stolen bases in his first 13 games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source tells the Chronicle that George Springer is on his way to the majors tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvanDrellich\/statuses\/456282160412901377\">April 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Astros will start Springer in right field. Robbie Grossman has been sent to Triple-A in order to make room for him.<\/p>\n<p>Springer has been on the radar of Houston fans since he hit 37 home runs and stole 45 bases between Double-A Corpus Christi and Oklahoma City a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, it\u2019s just one of those things, as a hitter I\u2019ve got to be smart,\u201d Springer told the Houston Chronicle on Monday about his strong minor league start. \u201cI can\u2019t buy into what they\u2019re trying to do. I have to wait for my pitch to hit, and if it isn\u2019t there, I have to be able to take what they\u2019re giving me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many are already labeling Springer as the &#8220;face of the franchise&#8221; and it will be interesting to see how he performs compared to some others who have had similar expectations placed on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Astros will add George Springer to their active roster prior to Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Kansas City Royals. Springer was 3-for-4 with a grand slam on Tuesday night for Triple-A Oklahoma City. He has had a strong start to the minor league season posting a .353 average with three homers, nine RBI and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,711,93,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-george-springer","10":"tag-houston-astros","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274","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=7274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7276,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions\/7276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7274"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}