{"id":11208,"date":"2018-07-17T12:35:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T16:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11208"},"modified":"2018-07-17T12:35:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T16:35:09","slug":"mariners-add-cameron-rupp-on-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/07\/17\/mariners-add-cameron-rupp-on-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners add Cameron Rupp on minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11209\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/07\/cameronrupp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/07\/cameronrupp.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/07\/cameronrupp-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Phillies catcher Cameron Rupp has joined the Mariners on a minor league deal.<\/p>\n<p>Rupp, 29, gives the Mariners some depth at Triple-A Tacoma. In parts of five seasons with the Phillies, Rubb hit 39 career home runs including 30 over his last two seasons totaling 193 games.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the Mariners, Rupp has spent this season playing between Triple-A Round Rock and Rochester, the minor league affiliates of the Rangers and Twins.<\/p>\n<p>Given Rupp&#8217;s big league experience and pop, there is a chance he ends up as the backup to Mike Zunino. By all accounts Zunino&#8217;s ankle will be fine to start the second half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Phillies catcher Cameron Rupp has joined the Mariners on a minor league deal. Rupp, 29, gives the Mariners some depth at Triple-A Tacoma. In parts of five seasons with the Phillies, Rubb hit 39 career home runs including 30 over his last two seasons totaling 193 games. Prior to joining the Mariners, Rupp has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[1059,501,381],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cameron-rupp","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-seattle-mariners"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11210,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions\/11210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11208"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}