{"id":17547,"date":"2014-04-16T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mariners-send-morrison-to-dl-promote-franklin\/"},"modified":"2014-04-16T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T16:48:00","slug":"mariners-send-morrison-to-dl-promote-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mariners-send-morrison-to-dl-promote-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners send Morrison to DL, promote Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Seattle Mariners outfielder Logan Morrison was placed on the 15-day disabled list prior to Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Texas Rangers due to a hamstring strain he sustained earlier in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison was removed from Monday&#8217;s opener of the four-game set in the first inning due to the injury, with infielder Nick Franklin recalled from Triple-A Tacoma to fill the available roster spot.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Morrison, obtained in a trade with Miami over the winter, had gotten off to a horrendous start to the season, recording only three singles in 20 at-bats over eight games.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin spent much of last season as Seattle&#8217;s regular second baseman, but opened 2014 in the minors following the club&#8217;s acquisition of All-Star Robinson Cano. The 23-year-old was hitting well for Tacoma, going 17-for-43 (.395) with four home runs and 13 RBI in 11 games.<\/p>\n<p>In 102 games as a rookie last year, Franklin hit .225 with 12 homers, 45 RBI and six stolen bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Seattle Mariners outfielder Logan Morrison was placed on the 15-day disabled list prior to Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Texas Rangers due to a hamstring strain he sustained earlier in the series. Morrison was removed from Monday&#8217;s opener of the four-game set in the first inning due to the injury, with infielder [&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":[213,131,212],"class_list":["post-17547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mariners","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17547","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=17547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}