{"id":2045,"date":"2013-04-10T15:45:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T19:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2013-04-10T15:45:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T19:45:58","slug":"braves-pick-up-reliever-luis-ayala-from-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/04\/10\/braves-pick-up-reliever-luis-ayala-from-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves pick up reliever Luis Ayala from O&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2046\" alt=\"luisayala\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/luisayala.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/luisayala.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/luisayala-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/luisayala-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday the Braves acquired right handed reliever Luis Ayala from the Orioles. Ayala will join the Braves bullpen which is missing set-up man Jonny Venters.<\/p>\n<p>Ayala is making $1 million this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles received 24-year-old minor leaguer Chris Jones in the deal. Jones will be assigned to Double-A Bowie. Last year he had a 3.90 ERA in 60 innings of relief while at the Double-A level.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta acquired a reliever who pitched 75 innings last season finishing with a 2.64 ERA and a 51\/15 K\/BB ratio. In order to place Ayala on the roster the Braves are expected to designate Anthony Varvaro or Christian Martinez for assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday the Braves acquired right handed reliever Luis Ayala from the Orioles. Ayala will join the Braves bullpen which is missing set-up man Jonny Venters. Ayala is making $1 million this season. The Orioles received 24-year-old minor leaguer Chris Jones in the deal. Jones will be assigned to Double-A Bowie. Last year he had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","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=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}