{"id":8206,"date":"2014-06-13T15:39:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8206"},"modified":"2014-06-13T15:39:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:39:47","slug":"cardinals-send-oscar-taveras-back-to-triple-a-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/13\/cardinals-send-oscar-taveras-back-to-triple-a-memphis\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals send Oscar Taveras back to Triple-A Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8207\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8207\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/oscartaveras.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8207\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/oscartaveras.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/oscartaveras-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nOscar Taveras has been optioned to Triple-A Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old outfielder was called up two weeks ago hitting a home run in his second at-bat but had done little since then.<\/p>\n<p>In 10 games with the Cardinals he hit just .189\/.225\/.297 with a home run and two RBI. <\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals are getting Matt Adams back making this a relatively easy decision. Taveras was simply not going to get enough at-bats at the big league level right now to justify him being on the Cardinals roster. <\/p>\n<p>Randal Grichuk will remain with the Cardinals for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Taveras has been optioned to Triple-A Memphis. The 21-year-old outfielder was called up two weeks ago hitting a home run in his second at-bat but had done little since then. In 10 games with the Cardinals he hit just .189\/.225\/.297 with a home run and two RBI. The Cardinals are getting Matt Adams back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[501,772,29],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-oscar-taveras","10":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206","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=8206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8208,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions\/8208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8206"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}