{"id":19673,"date":"2014-06-15T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-ink-jose-veras-put-fields-on-dl\/"},"modified":"2014-06-15T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T12:48:00","slug":"astros-ink-jose-veras-put-fields-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-ink-jose-veras-put-fields-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros ink Jose Veras, put Fields on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros have agreed to terms with pitcher Jose Veras on a minor league contract.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Sunday, the Astros placed pitcher Josh Fields on the 15-day disabled list with soreness in his right forearm and recalled pitcher Paul Clemens from Triple-A Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>Veras was released by the Chicago Cubs earlier this month after going 0-1 with an 8.10 ERA in 12 games. The right-hander lost the closer&#8217;s job after blowing two saves in April.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Veras started the 2013 season with the Astros. He recorded a 2.93 ERA and 19 saves in 43 innings before being dealt to the Detroit Tigers. Veras finished with a 3.20 ERA with the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>Veras is 19-23 with 26 saves and a 3.99 ERA in 406 career games with the Yankees, Indians, Marlins, Pirates, Brewers, Astros, Tigers and Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Fields is 1-4 with two saves and a 5.93 ERA in 28 relief appearances this season.<\/p>\n<p>Clemens is 0-1 with a 5.16 ERA in 11 trips out of the bullpen for Astros this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros have agreed to terms with pitcher Jose Veras on a minor league contract. Also on Sunday, the Astros placed pitcher Josh Fields on the 15-day disabled list with soreness in his right forearm and recalled pitcher Paul Clemens from Triple-A Oklahoma City. Veras was released by the Chicago [&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":[44,43,42],"class_list":["post-19673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-astros","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673","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=19673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}