{"id":20246,"date":"2014-06-30T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mariners-recall-walker-to-start\/"},"modified":"2014-06-30T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T16:21:00","slug":"mariners-recall-walker-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mariners-recall-walker-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners recall Walker to start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners recalled right-handed pitcher Taijuan Walker from Triple-A Tacoma to start Monday against the Houston Astros.<\/p>\n<p>Walker, who MLB.com listed as the league&#8217;s fifth top prospect, will square off against Houston starter Collin McHugh in the opener of a three-game set.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old dealt with shoulder inflammation in spring training and a setback during April kept him out even longer. He was 1-0 with a 3.60 earned run average in three starts with the Mariners last season.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle optioned outfielder Stefen Romero to Tacoma to make room for Walker on the roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners recalled right-handed pitcher Taijuan Walker from Triple-A Tacoma to start Monday against the Houston Astros. Walker, who MLB.com listed as the league&#8217;s fifth top prospect, will square off against Houston starter Collin McHugh in the opener of a three-game set. The 21-year-old dealt with shoulder inflammation in spring [&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-20246","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\/20246","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=20246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}