{"id":8003,"date":"2014-05-28T13:13:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T17:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8003"},"modified":"2014-05-28T13:13:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T17:13:28","slug":"braves-call-up-tommy-la-stella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/28\/braves-call-up-tommy-la-stella\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves call up Tommy La Stella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/tommylastella.jpg\" alt=\"tommylastella\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/tommylastella.jpg 720w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/tommylastella-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Atlanta Braves have gotten little to no production from the second base position. On Wednesday the team called up Tommy La Stella from Triple-A Gwinnett.<\/p>\n<p>No corresponding move has been announced. The team could be waiting to see the status of Andrelton Simmons&#8217; ankle.<\/p>\n<p>La Stella, a former eighth-round pick, is a career .322\/.407\/.474 hitter in the minors and was batting a cool .293\/.384\/.359 at Gwinnett this season.<\/p>\n<p>Without much power and little running ability, La Stella will need to hit for average if he is to have a impact in Atlanta for fantasy purposes. His defense is considered middle of the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves have gotten little to no production from the second base position. On Wednesday the team called up Tommy La Stella from Triple-A Gwinnett. No corresponding move has been announced. The team could be waiting to see the status of Andrelton Simmons&#8217; ankle. La Stella, a former eighth-round pick, is a career .322\/.407\/.474 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,501,770],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-mlb","tag-tommy-la-stella"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003","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=8003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8005,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003\/revisions\/8005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8003"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}