{"id":7806,"date":"2014-05-18T16:16:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T20:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7806"},"modified":"2014-05-18T16:16:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T20:16:44","slug":"as-claim-jeff-francis-off-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/18\/as-claim-jeff-francis-off-waivers\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;s claim Jeff Francis off waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/20140518-161419.jpg\" alt=\"20140518-161419.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nThe Oakland Athletics have claimed left handed pitcher Jeff Francis off waivers from the Cincinnati Reds. <\/p>\n<p>Francis had pitched well at Triple-A Louisville before earning a spot start last week. He went five innings allowing three runs before the Reds attempted to send him back to Louisville. Instead the A&#8217;s claimed him.  <\/p>\n<p>Joe Savey was placed on paternity leave by the A&#8217;s opening a spot in their bullpen for Francis. How long he sticks around will be determined by how wellhead pitches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Athletics have claimed left handed pitcher Jeff Francis off waivers from the Cincinnati Reds. Francis had pitched well at Triple-A Louisville before earning a spot start last week. He went five innings allowing three runs before the Reds attempted to send him back to Louisville. Instead the A&#8217;s claimed him. Joe Savey was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[752,372,501,272],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cincinnat-reds","9":"tag-jeff-francis","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-oakland-athletics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806","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=7806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7807,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions\/7807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7806"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}