{"id":19970,"date":"2014-06-24T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-activate-p-chen\/"},"modified":"2014-06-24T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T16:41:00","slug":"royals-activate-p-chen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-activate-p-chen\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals activate P Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals activated pitcher Bruce Chen from the 60-day disabled list on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Chen, 37, was dealing with a bulging disc in his lower back. He hasn&#8217;t pitched since April 24 and is expected to move into the bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>In four starts for the Royals this season, the lefty is 1-2 with a 7.45 earned run average.<\/p>\n<p>To make room on the roster, Kansas City optioned pitcher Tim Collins to Triple-A Omaha.<\/p>\n<p>Collins is 0-3 with a 4.15 ERA across 17 1\/3 innings of work this season.<\/p>\n<p>The club also designated pitcher Donnie Joseph for assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals activated pitcher Bruce Chen from the 60-day disabled list on Tuesday. Chen, 37, was dealing with a bulging disc in his lower back. He hasn&#8217;t pitched since April 24 and is expected to move into the bullpen. In four starts for the Royals this season, the [&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":[110,216,217],"class_list":["post-19970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19970","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=19970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}