{"id":3387,"date":"2013-07-03T10:57:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T14:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2013-07-03T10:57:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T14:57:55","slug":"mark-appel-set-to-make-minor-league-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/03\/mark-appel-set-to-make-minor-league-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Appel set to make minor league debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3204\" alt=\"appel\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/appel.jpg\" width=\"492\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/appel.jpg 657w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/appel-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first overall pick in this year\u2019s First-Year Player Draft is set to make his professional debut. Mark Appel will start for Class A Tri-City in his first minor league start.<\/p>\n<p>Drafted as the first selection of the draft by the Houston Astros, Appel received a $6.35 million bonus last month after he failed to sign with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros will keep close eyes on Appel\u2019s work load but most pundits believe he will be able to contribute at the major league level in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Appel threw 106 1\/3 innings this year with Stanford. He recently threw a side session at the Astros\u2019 spring training complex in Kissimmee, FL.<\/p>\n<p>With Stanford this year Appel was 10-4 with a 2.12 ERA. He recorded 130 strike outs and held batters to a .203 average while throwing four complete games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first overall pick in this year\u2019s First-Year Player Draft is set to make his professional debut. Mark Appel will start for Class A Tri-City in his first minor league start. Drafted as the first selection of the draft by the Houston Astros, Appel received a $6.35 million bonus last month after he failed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-3387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}