{"id":5886,"date":"2014-01-10T13:39:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T18:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5886"},"modified":"2014-01-10T13:39:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T18:39:35","slug":"yankees-designate-vernon-wells-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/10\/yankees-designate-vernon-wells-for-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees designate Vernon Wells for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/vernonwells.jpg\" alt=\"vernonwells\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/vernonwells.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/vernonwells-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe New York Yankees have designated outfielder Vernon Wells for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Wells, 35, finished 2013 with a .233\/.282\/.349 with 11 home runs in 130 games but it was not enough to earn him a roster spot in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees have a surprise of outfielders and needed a spot on their 40-man roster. Wells figures to get a look at a back-up role elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Of the $21 million owed to Wells in 2014 the Yankees are on the hook for less than $3 million. In addition the Yankees will receive luxury tax breaks for acquiring Wells who previously had been traded to the Angels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees have designated outfielder Vernon Wells for assignment. Wells, 35, finished 2013 with a .233\/.282\/.349 with 11 home runs in 130 games but it was not enough to earn him a roster spot in 2014. The Yankees have a surprise of outfielders and needed a spot on their 40-man roster. Wells figures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[38,243],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-new-york-yankees","9":"tag-vernon-wells"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886","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=5886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5886"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}