{"id":17657,"date":"2014-04-21T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/tigers-place-putkonen-on-dl-bring-up-martinez\/"},"modified":"2014-04-21T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T13:28:00","slug":"tigers-place-putkonen-on-dl-bring-up-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/tigers-place-putkonen-on-dl-bring-up-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers place Putkonen on DL, bring up Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit, MI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Detroit Tigers placed reliever Luke Putkonen on the 15-day disabled list and purchased the contract of outfielder J.D. Martinez from Triple-A Toledo on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Putkonen lands on the DL, retroactive to Saturday, with right elbow inflammation. He has allowed eight runs and six hits in two appearances for the Tigers this season.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez was tearing it up in the minors, leading the International League with 10 home runs and a .846 slugging percentage while hitting .308 with 22 RBI in 17 games.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Martinez played 252 games with the Houston Astros from 2011-13, batting .251 with 24 homers and 126 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>To make room from Martinez on the 40-man roster, the Tigers transferred outfielder Andy Dirks (back surgery) to the 60-day DL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit, MI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Detroit Tigers placed reliever Luke Putkonen on the 15-day disabled list and purchased the contract of outfielder J.D. Martinez from Triple-A Toledo on Monday. Putkonen lands on the DL, retroactive to Saturday, with right elbow inflammation. He has allowed eight runs and six hits in two appearances for the Tigers [&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":[51,61,62],"class_list":["post-17657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17657","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=17657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}