{"id":20714,"date":"2014-07-10T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/phillies-call-up-grady-sizemore\/"},"modified":"2014-07-10T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T21:02:00","slug":"phillies-call-up-grady-sizemore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/phillies-call-up-grady-sizemore\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies call up Grady Sizemore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Philadelphia Phillies called up Grady Sizemore on Thursday, adding him to the big-league club two weeks after signing him to a minor-league deal.<\/p>\n<p>The oft-injured Sizemore batted .289 in his first 10 games for Triple-A Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>He was signed by the Boston Red Sox in the offseason to a one-year, $750,000 deal and won the starting job in center field after a good spring training, but his level of play didn&#8217;t continue and he was released on June 18.<\/p>\n<p>This season is Sizemore&#8217;s first in the majors since 2011 due to knee and back injuries. A three-time All-Star with the Cleveland Indians from 2006-08, he has undergone seven surgeries since the 2009 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies optioned pitcher David Buchanan to Lehigh Valley and moved Cliff Lee to the 60-day disabled list. Lee hasn&#8217;t pitched since May 18 because of an elbow issue but is expected back after the All-Star break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Philadelphia Phillies called up Grady Sizemore on Thursday, adding him to the big-league club two weeks after signing him to a minor-league deal. The oft-injured Sizemore batted .289 in his first 10 games for Triple-A Lehigh Valley. He was signed by the Boston Red Sox in the offseason to a one-year, $750,000 [&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":[64,194,195],"class_list":["post-20714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20714","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=20714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}