{"id":16896,"date":"2014-03-30T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/indians-place-bourn-giambi-on-dl\/"},"modified":"2014-03-30T12:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T12:51:00","slug":"indians-place-bourn-giambi-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/indians-place-bourn-giambi-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians place Bourn, Giambi on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cleveland Indians made a slew of roster moves Sunday in preparation for the start of the season, including placing center fielder Michael Bourn and designated hitter Jason Giambi on the 15-day disabled list.<\/p>\n<p>Bourn is hampered by a left hamstring strain, while Giambi has a rib fracture, leaving both players unavailable for Cleveland&#8217;s opener against Oakland on Monday. Both moves are retroactive to March 21.<\/p>\n<p>With Bourn on the mend, outfielder Nyjer Morgan, who had his contract purchased by Cleveland from Triple-A Columbus Sunday, is likely to see an increased workload in center field.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan, a .280 career hitter over six major league seasons with Pittsburgh, Washington and Milwaukee, signed a minor league deal with the Indians in January and made the Opening Day roster despite batting .208 with four doubles and seven RBI this spring.<\/p>\n<p>The Indians also purchased the contract of pitcher Scott Atchison from Columbus while designating pitchers Preston Guilmet, Frank Herrmann and Colt Hyunes for assigment.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland completed its Opening Day roster by reassigning outfielder Matt Carson and Ryan Rohlinger to minor league camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cleveland Indians made a slew of roster moves Sunday in preparation for the start of the season, including placing center fielder Michael Bourn and designated hitter Jason Giambi on the 15-day disabled list. Bourn is hampered by a left hamstring strain, while Giambi has a rib fracture, leaving both players [&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":[54,53,55],"class_list":["post-16896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-indians","tag-indians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896","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=16896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}