{"id":9236,"date":"2014-10-28T15:35:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T19:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9236"},"modified":"2014-10-28T15:35:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T19:35:44","slug":"blue-jays-claim-justin-smoak-off-waviers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/10\/28\/blue-jays-claim-justin-smoak-off-waviers\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays claim Justin Smoak off waviers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/justinsmoak.jpg\" alt=\"justinsmoak\" width=\"594\" height=\"446\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9237\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/justinsmoak.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/justinsmoak-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Toronto Blue Jays have claimed first baseman Justin Smoak off waivers from the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke, 27, is coming off a season in which he hit just .202\/.275\/.339 in 80 games. Long on potential and short on results, the Blue Jays will hope yet another change of scenery gets things going for Smoak.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition of Smoak who has a $3.65 million option for the 2015 season increases the likelihood that the Blue Jays move on from Adam Lind and decline his option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays have claimed first baseman Justin Smoak off waivers from the Seattle Mariners. Smoke, 27, is coming off a season in which he hit just .202\/.275\/.339 in 80 games. Long on potential and short on results, the Blue Jays will hope yet another change of scenery gets things going for Smoak. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[860,501,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-justin-smoak","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9236","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=9236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9238,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9236\/revisions\/9238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9236"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}