{"id":8592,"date":"2014-07-18T15:57:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T19:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8592"},"modified":"2014-07-18T15:57:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T19:57:17","slug":"braves-finally-give-up-on-dan-uggla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/18\/braves-finally-give-up-on-dan-uggla\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves finally give up on Dan Uggla"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4372\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/danuggla.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/danuggla.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/danuggla-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Friday the Atlanta Braves released veteran infielder Dan Uggla.<\/p>\n<p>The second baseman had been rarely used of late after struggling down the stretch last season and getting off to a poor start.<\/p>\n<p>Uggla, 34, was suspended for last Sunday&#8217;s game after showing up late to a Saturday contest against the Chicago Cubs. He was hitting just .175\/.295\/.332 this season.<\/p>\n<p>Owed around $18.5 million by the Braves though the end of next season, someone will take a gamble on Uggla but given his career trend it may be too late.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Pastornicky has been recalled to take Uggla&#8217;s roster space.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old has hit just .200\/.300\/.257 in 35 at-bats this season for the Braves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday the Atlanta Braves released veteran infielder Dan Uggla. The second baseman had been rarely used of late after struggling down the stretch last season and getting off to a poor start. Uggla, 34, was suspended for last Sunday&#8217;s game after showing up late to a Saturday contest against the Chicago Cubs. He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,440,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-dan-uggla","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592","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=8592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8593,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592\/revisions\/8593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8592"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}