{"id":21143,"date":"2014-07-21T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blue-jays-dfa-reliever-santos\/"},"modified":"2014-07-21T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T16:22:00","slug":"blue-jays-dfa-reliever-santos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blue-jays-dfa-reliever-santos\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays DFA reliever Santos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays have designated struggling pitcher Sergio Santos for assignment, the team announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Santos was rocked for 18 runs (17 earned) and 24 hits in 19 2\/3 innings over 24 relief appearances for Toronto this season. The right-hander also was plagued by control problems, issuing 17 walks in those 24 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays acquired Santos from the White Sox in December of 2011, shortly after he put together a 30-save campaign as Chicago&#8217;s closer. He pitched in only six games the following season, however, before undergoing surgery on his right shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Pitcher Rob Rasmussen was recalled from Triple-A Buffalo in a corresponding move and will be active for Monday&#8217;s game against the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Rasmussen has gone 1-1 with a 2.61 ERA and one save in 25 games for Buffalo. The left-hander was obtained by Toronto in a trade with Philadelphia back in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays have designated struggling pitcher Sergio Santos for assignment, the team announced Monday. Santos was rocked for 18 runs (17 earned) and 24 hits in 19 2\/3 innings over 24 relief appearances for Toronto this season. The right-hander also was plagued by control problems, issuing 17 walks in [&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":[116,115,114],"class_list":["post-21143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-blue-jays","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21143","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=21143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}