{"id":8199,"date":"2014-06-13T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8199"},"modified":"2014-06-13T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:24:44","slug":"rays-claim-angel-sanchez-off-waivers-for-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/13\/rays-claim-angel-sanchez-off-waivers-for-marlins\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays claim Angel Sanchez off waivers from Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8200 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/angelsanchez.jpg\" alt=\"angelsanchez\" width=\"316\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/angelsanchez.jpg 406w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/angelsanchez-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/>A year ago Angel Sanchez was considered the highlight of a trade package that sent Ricky Nolasco to the Los Angeles Dodgers. A few days ago he was placed on waivers.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Rays claimed the 24-year-old pitcher and have assigned him to Double-A.<\/p>\n<p>In eight starts at that level this season Sanchez has posted an uninspiring 0-8 record to go with a 6.88 ERA and a 1.66 WHIP. Obviously the Rays are hoping that a change of scenery could help them catch lighting in a bottle.<\/p>\n<p>Given Sanchez&#8217;s career 4.93 ERA, 1.43 WHIP and 341\/159 K\/BB ratio its unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins will use Sanchez&#8217;s spot on the 40-man roster to activate Rafael Furcal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago Angel Sanchez was considered the highlight of a trade package that sent Ricky Nolasco to the Los Angeles Dodgers. A few days ago he was placed on waivers. The Tampa Bay Rays claimed the 24-year-old pitcher and have assigned him to Double-A. In eight starts at that level this season Sanchez has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[785,179],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-angel-sanchez","9":"tag-tampa-bay-rays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199","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=8199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8203,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199\/revisions\/8203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8199"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}