{"id":8328,"date":"2014-06-24T16:30:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T20:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8328"},"modified":"2014-06-24T16:30:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T20:30:14","slug":"rangers-call-up-carlos-pena-to-play-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/24\/rangers-call-up-carlos-pena-to-play-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers call up Carlos Pena to play first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/20140624-162933-59373218.jpg\" alt=\"20140624-162933-59373218.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nThe Texas Rangers wasted little time calling up recently signed first baseman Carlos Pena.  <\/p>\n<p>Signed a week ago, Pena had a brief stay at Triple-A Round Rock. <\/p>\n<p>Given that Pena hit just .207\/.321\/.346 with eight home runs in 89 games last season between Houston and Kansas City expectations should be tempered.  <\/p>\n<p>Pena has been penciled into the sixth spot in the Rangers batting order.  He is replacing Brad Snyder who was designated for assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers wasted little time calling up recently signed first baseman Carlos Pena. Signed a week ago, Pena had a brief stay at Triple-A Round Rock. Given that Pena hit just .207\/.321\/.346 with eight home runs in 89 games last season between Houston and Kansas City expectations should be tempered. Pena has been penciled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328","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=8328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8329,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions\/8329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8328"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}