{"id":8056,"date":"2014-06-02T14:32:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T18:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8056"},"modified":"2014-06-02T14:32:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T18:32:45","slug":"royals-claim-blake-wood-off-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/02\/royals-claim-blake-wood-off-waivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals claim Blake Wood off waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/blakewood.jpg\" alt=\"blakewood\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/blakewood.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/blakewood-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nBlake Wood is returning to the organization that selected him in the third round of the 2006 MLB Amateur Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Royals have claimed the right handed pitcher off waivers from the Cleveland Indians.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Wood appeared in seven games with the Indians allowing five runs in 6 1\/3 innings. He posted a 7\/7 K\/BB ratio during that span and was placed on waivers last week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The Kansas City <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Royals&amp;src=hash\">#Royals<\/a> are bringing back RHP Blake Wood, a former mainstay in pen, claiming him off waivers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Cleveland&amp;src=hash\">#Cleveland<\/a> Indians.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNightengale\/statuses\/473518970721812481\">June 2, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wood&#8217;s best season came in 2011 as a member of the Royals when he appeared in 55 games posting a 3.75 ERA and a 1.41 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Wood is returning to the organization that selected him in the third round of the 2006 MLB Amateur Draft. The Kansas City Royals have claimed the right handed pitcher off waivers from the Cleveland Indians. The 28-year-old Wood appeared in seven games with the Indians allowing five runs in 6 1\/3 innings. He posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056","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=8056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8058,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions\/8058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8056"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}