{"id":9510,"date":"2014-11-24T21:02:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T02:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9510"},"modified":"2014-11-24T21:02:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T02:02:56","slug":"rays-release-jose-molina-and-cole-figueroa-pirates-cut-ties-with-ramon-cabrer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/24\/rays-release-jose-molina-and-cole-figueroa-pirates-cut-ties-with-ramon-cabrer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays release Jose Molina and Cole Figueroa, Pirates cut ties with Ramon Cabrer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9400\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/josemolina.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"420\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/josemolina.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/josemolina-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAfter unsuccessfully trying to trade catcher Jose Molina, the Rays have cut ties with the 39-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Long gone are the days that Molina could contribute anything with the bat but he is still a strong defender and stands a decent chance of landing a backup job somewhere. <\/p>\n<p>Molina hit a laughable .178\/.230\/.187 in 80 games last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays also cut ties with second baseman Cole Figueroa. The 27-year-old will try to find a new home after hitting just .233\/.286\/.326 in 23 games during the 2014 season. He is only going to get a minor league deal.<\/p>\n<p>Another catcher on the free agent market is now former Pirates minor leaguer Ramon Cabrera. Between Double-A affiliates for the Tigers and Pirates the 25-year-old batted .273\/.325\/.364 which leaves him looking at minor league options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After unsuccessfully trying to trade catcher Jose Molina, the Rays have cut ties with the 39-year-old. Long gone are the days that Molina could contribute anything with the bat but he is still a strong defender and stands a decent chance of landing a backup job somewhere. Molina hit a laughable .178\/.230\/.187 in 80 games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[874,501,179],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jose-molina","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-tampa-bay-rays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510","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=9510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9511,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510\/revisions\/9511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9510"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}