{"id":16999,"date":"2014-04-01T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-ryan-to-dl-nunez-dfad\/"},"modified":"2014-04-01T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T17:17:00","slug":"yankees-ryan-to-dl-nunez-dfad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-ryan-to-dl-nunez-dfad\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Ryan to DL, Nunez DFA&#8217;d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Yankees placed infielder Brendan Ryan on the 15-day disabled list while finalizing their 25-man roster for Tuesday&#8217;s season opener at Houston.<\/p>\n<p>New York also designated infielder Eduardo Nunez, beaten out by rookie Yangervis Solarte for the Yankees&#8217; final bench spot, for assignment to create an opening for Solarte on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan was limited to just four games and eight at-bats this spring by a pinched nerve in his upper back and will begin the season in extended spring training.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez, who started 84 games for the Yankees last season and was the club&#8217;s primary fill-in for the injured Derek Jeter at shortstop, had been optioned to Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. The veteran utilityman is a career .267 hitter with 10 home runs and 76 RBI over 270 major league games, all with New York.<\/p>\n<p>Solarte, signed to a minor league contract over the winter, made the Opening Day roster by hitting .429 with two homers, nine RBI and a .489 on-base percentage in 24 Grapefruit League games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Yankees placed infielder Brendan Ryan on the 15-day disabled list while finalizing their 25-man roster for Tuesday&#8217;s season opener at Houston. New York also designated infielder Eduardo Nunez, beaten out by rookie Yangervis Solarte for the Yankees&#8217; final bench spot, for assignment to create an opening for Solarte [&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":[59,58,60],"class_list":["post-16999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999","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=16999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}