{"id":8425,"date":"2014-07-06T13:03:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T17:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8425"},"modified":"2014-07-06T13:03:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T17:03:47","slug":"yankees-land-braandon-mccarthy-designate-alfonso-soriano-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/06\/yankees-land-braandon-mccarthy-designate-alfonso-soriano-for-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees land Braandon McCarthy, designate Alfonso Soriano for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/brandonmccarthy.jpg\" alt=\"brandonmccarthy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"664\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/brandonmccarthy.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/brandonmccarthy-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nThe New York Yankees have acquired pitcher Brandon McCarthy and cash from the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for Vidal Nuno.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy owns a 5.01 ERA this season but has a 93\/20 K\/BB ratio. That the Diamondbacks are picking up $2.05 million of the $4.8 million he is still owed helped facilitate a trade.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees will have McCarthy made his debut on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In order to make room for McCarthy on the roster the Yankees have designated Alfonso Soriano for assignment. After a strong showing for the Yankees last summer it has been downhill this year. He owns just a .221\/.244\/.367 line with six homers over 67 contests this year. <\/p>\n<p>Owed just the minimum if a team signs him after his release, Soriano has a good chance of reemerging in the majors this season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees have acquired pitcher Brandon McCarthy and cash from the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for Vidal Nuno. McCarthy owns a 5.01 ERA this season but has a 93\/20 K\/BB ratio. That the Diamondbacks are picking up $2.05 million of the $4.8 million he is still owed helped facilitate a trade. The Yankees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[128,503,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brandon-mccarthy","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425","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=8425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8426,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions\/8426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}