{"id":7503,"date":"2014-04-28T10:53:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T14:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7503"},"modified":"2014-04-28T10:53:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T14:53:14","slug":"cardinals-option-kolten-wong-to-triple-a-recall-greg-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/28\/cardinals-option-kolten-wong-to-triple-a-recall-greg-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals option Kolten Wong to Triple-A, recall Greg Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7504\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7504\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/koltenwong.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7504\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/koltenwong.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/koltenwong-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe St. Louis Cardinals have sent struggling second baseman Kloten Wong to Triple-A Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>Wong, 23, struggled at the end of last season but was given the Cardinals starting job at second base to start the 2014 season. He responded by hitting just .225\/.276\/.268 with five RBI in his first 20 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals will hope that Wong can figure it out at Triple-A before giving him another shot at the big league level. To take his place the team recalled infielder Greg Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia, 24, will give the Cardinals a replacement for Wong. He was off to a .277\/.362\/.554 batting line with five home runs and 14 RBI in 20 games for Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Ellis will also see time at second base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals have sent struggling second baseman Kloten Wong to Triple-A Memphis. Wong, 23, struggled at the end of last season but was given the Cardinals starting job at second base to start the 2014 season. He responded by hitting just .225\/.276\/.268 with five RBI in his first 20 games this season. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[726,501,29],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-7503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-kolten-wong","tag-mlb","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503","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=7503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7505,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions\/7505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7503"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}