{"id":18154,"date":"2014-05-04T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rays-designate-p-bell-for-assignment\/"},"modified":"2014-05-04T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T11:32:00","slug":"rays-designate-p-bell-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rays-designate-p-bell-for-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays designate P Bell for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Rays designated relief pitcher Heath Bell for assignment on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Bell appeared in 13 games for the Rays this season, posting a 1-1 record with a 7.27 ERA over 17 1\/3 innings. He pitched in the past two games against the Yankees, earning the win in Friday&#8217;s 14-inning marathon with 2 1\/3 frames of four-hit relief.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay acquired Bell from Arizona this past winter. The Rays now have 10 days to place the 36-year-old right-hander on waivers, trade or realease him.<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander Nathan Karns was recalled from Triple-A Durham to replace Bell on the active roster. Karns was 2-2 with an 8.20 ERA over six starts for Durham.<\/p>\n<p>Karns made three starts for the Nationals last season. He was 0-1 with a 7.50 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Rays designated relief pitcher Heath Bell for assignment on Sunday. Bell appeared in 13 games for the Rays this season, posting a 1-1 record with a 7.27 ERA over 17 1\/3 innings. He pitched in the past two games against the Yankees, earning the win in Friday&#8217;s 14-inning [&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":[191,67,190],"class_list":["post-18154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-rays","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18154","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=18154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}