{"id":20041,"date":"2014-06-26T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-call-up-veras\/"},"modified":"2014-06-26T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T12:17:00","slug":"astros-call-up-veras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-call-up-veras\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros call up Veras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros called up pitcher Jose Veras from Triple-A Oklahoma City prior to Thursday&#8217;s game against the Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros signed Veras to a minor league contract on June 15. The right- hander tossed two scoreless innings for Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>Veras went 0-1 with an 8.10 ERA in 12 games with the Chicago Cubs earlier this season.<\/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>To make room on the roster for Veras, the Astros outrighted pitcher Kyle Farnsworth to Oklahoma City. He appeared in 16 games with Houston and posted an ERA of 6.17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros called up pitcher Jose Veras from Triple-A Oklahoma City prior to Thursday&#8217;s game against the Atlanta Braves. The Astros signed Veras to a minor league contract on June 15. The right- hander tossed two scoreless innings for Oklahoma City. Veras went 0-1 with an 8.10 ERA in 12 [&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-20041","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\/20041","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=20041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}