{"id":19599,"date":"2014-06-12T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ms-call-up-montero-place-saunders-on-dl\/"},"modified":"2014-06-12T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T19:15:00","slug":"ms-call-up-montero-place-saunders-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ms-call-up-montero-place-saunders-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"M&#8217;s call up Montero, place Saunders on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners recalled once promising prospect Jesus Montero from Triple-A Tacoma on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Montero takes the roster spot of outfielder Michael Saunders, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list with right shoulder inflammation after Wednesday&#8217;s loss to the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Montero has hit .270 with eight home runs, 15 doubles and 40 RBI over 59 games with the Rainiers this season.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle acquired Montero, listed as a first baseman and designated hitter, from the Yankees in a January 2012 trade that sent Michael Pineda to the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>Saunders has batted .272 with four homers and 25 RBI in 52 games this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners recalled once promising prospect Jesus Montero from Triple-A Tacoma on Thursday. Montero takes the roster spot of outfielder Michael Saunders, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list with right shoulder inflammation after Wednesday&#8217;s loss to the New York Yankees. The 24-year-old Montero has hit .270 with eight [&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-19599","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\/19599","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=19599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}