{"id":7773,"date":"2014-05-16T15:50:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T19:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7773"},"modified":"2014-05-16T15:50:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T19:50:36","slug":"royals-designate-of-justin-maxwell-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/16\/royals-designate-of-justin-maxwell-for-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals designate OF Justin Maxwell for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7774\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7774\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/justinmaxwell.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/justinmaxwell.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/justinmaxwell-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Friday the Kansas City Royals designated outfielder Justin Maxwell for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell was hitting just .138\/.219\/.172 with no homers over his first 32 plate appearances this season before his release. He has the ability to play all three outfield spots.<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell is a career .225\/.312\/.420 hitter with 34 home runs and 106 RBI in 337 games.<\/p>\n<p>Someone will give the 30-year-old another shot but he may have to prove himself in the minor leagues first.<\/p>\n<p>And of course the twitter trolls are already out dogging on Maxwell.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Justin Maxwell just got DFA&#8217;d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday the Kansas City Royals designated outfielder Justin Maxwell for assignment. Maxwell was hitting just .138\/.219\/.172 with no homers over his first 32 plate appearances this season before his release. He has the ability to play all three outfield spots. Maxwell is a career .225\/.312\/.420 hitter with 34 home runs and 106 RBI in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[748,137],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-justin-maxwell","9":"tag-kansas-city-royals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773","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=7773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7775,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions\/7775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7773"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}