{"id":9888,"date":"2015-01-09T17:28:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T22:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9888"},"modified":"2015-01-09T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T22:28:12","slug":"orioles-designate-ryan-lavarnway-for-assignment-cubs-dump-mike-kickham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/01\/09\/orioles-designate-ryan-lavarnway-for-assignment-cubs-dump-mike-kickham\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles designate Ryan Lavarnway for assignment, Cubs dump Mike Kickham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/RyanLavarnway.jpg\" alt=\"RyanLavarnway\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9799\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/RyanLavarnway.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/RyanLavarnway-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Orioles formerly signed Delmon Young on Friday designating catcher\/first baseman Ryan Lavarnway for assignmnet.<\/p>\n<p>Lavarnway has now been with four different organizations this winter and figures to land with a fifth shortly. The 27-year-old is a proven hitter at the minor league level but owns just a 208\/.389\/.370 batting line during his brief major league career. He will end up with someone for spring training.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise the Cubs designated left handed reliever Mike Kickham for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Kickham was claimed off of waivers from the Giants a few weeks ago but sees his time on the Cubs 40-man roster end with the signing of Chris Denorfia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orioles formerly signed Delmon Young on Friday designating catcher\/first baseman Ryan Lavarnway for assignmnet. Lavarnway has now been with four different organizations this winter and figures to land with a fifth shortly. The 27-year-old is a proven hitter at the minor league level but owns just a 208\/.389\/.370 batting line during his brief major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9888","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\/9888","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=9888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9889,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9888\/revisions\/9889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9888"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}