{"id":5256,"date":"2013-11-20T20:04:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T01:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2013-11-20T20:04:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T01:04:29","slug":"nationals-purchase-contract-of-sammy-solis-and-michael-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/11\/20\/nationals-purchase-contract-of-sammy-solis-and-michael-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals purchase contract of Sammy Solis and Michael Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5257\" alt=\"sammysolis\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/sammysolis.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/sammysolis.jpg 480w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/sammysolis-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Nationals purchased the contracts of pitcher Sammy Solis and Michael Taylor from High-A Potomac.<\/p>\n<p>By purchasing the contracts of Solis and Taylor the Nationals will avoid losing either player in December&#8217;s Rule 5 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Solis, 25, is being considered for a bullpen spot for the Nationals next season after posting a 3.43 ERA in 57 2\/3 innings at Potomac. Solis was set back by shoulder surgery that cost him all of 2012 and half of the 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, 22, is a speedy outfielder who stole 51 bases last season for Potomac.<\/p>\n<p>Of the two players, Solis would have been the most valuable for another club to claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Nationals purchased the contracts of pitcher Sammy Solis and Michael Taylor from High-A Potomac. By purchasing the contracts of Solis and Taylor the Nationals will avoid losing either player in December&#8217;s Rule 5 draft. Solis, 25, is being considered for a bullpen spot for the Nationals next season after posting a 3.43 ERA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,519,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sammy-solis","11":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256","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=5256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5256"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}