{"id":20274,"date":"2014-07-01T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-designate-williams-for-assignment\/"},"modified":"2014-07-01T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T07:10:11","slug":"astros-designate-williams-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-designate-williams-for-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros designate Williams for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros have designated relief pitcher Jerome Williams for assignment following another shaky outing in Monday&#8217;s 10-4 loss to Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Houston, which signed Williams to a $2.1 million deal in February, now has 10 days to trade or release the right-hander.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was tagged for two runs on three hits and a walk in two relief innings on Monday and his ERA rose to a lofty 6.04 in the setback.<\/p>\n<p>He gave up 32 earned runs on 56 hits and 15 walks over 47 2\/3 innings this season for the Astros.<\/p>\n<p>The club also optioned shortstop Jonathan Villar to Triple-A Oklahoma City. Villar was batting .200 with six homers and 22 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros have designated relief pitcher Jerome Williams for assignment following another shaky outing in Monday&#8217;s 10-4 loss to Seattle. Houston, which signed Williams to a $2.1 million deal in February, now has 10 days to trade or release the right-hander. Williams was tagged for two runs on three hits [&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-20274","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\/20274","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=20274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20275,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20274\/revisions\/20275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}