{"id":16596,"date":"2014-03-24T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/izturis-released-by-astros\/"},"modified":"2014-03-24T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:30:00","slug":"izturis-released-by-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/izturis-released-by-astros\/","title":{"rendered":"Izturis released by Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kissimmee, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros released veteran infielder Cesar Izturis among four roster moves announced by the team on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-year major leaguer was attempting to earn a spot as a non-roster invitee and hit .269 with three RBI in 26 at-bats this spring. Izturis spent last season with the Cincinnati Reds, batting .209 with 11 RBI in 63 games.<\/p>\n<p>Houston also optioned reliever Josh Zeid to Triple-A Oklahoma City and reassigned outfielder Adron Chambers and catcher Rene Garcia to minor league camp.<\/p>\n<p>Zeid pitched in 25 games as a rookie with the Astros last season, going 0-1 with a 3.90 ERA and one save.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kissimmee, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros released veteran infielder Cesar Izturis among four roster moves announced by the team on Monday. The 13-year major leaguer was attempting to earn a spot as a non-roster invitee and hit .269 with three RBI in 26 at-bats this spring. Izturis spent last season with the Cincinnati Reds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,43,42],"class_list":["post-16596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-astros","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}