{"id":21550,"date":"2014-07-31T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-give-up-russell-bonifacio-to-braves\/"},"modified":"2014-07-31T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:10:00","slug":"cubs-give-up-russell-bonifacio-to-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-give-up-russell-bonifacio-to-braves\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs give up Russell, Bonifacio to Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Cubs continued to be sellers at Thursday&#8217;s non-waiver trade deadline, sending pitcher James Russell and utilityman Emilio Bonifacio to the Atlanta Braves for catching prospect Victor Caratini.<\/p>\n<p>Russell, a left-hander, has gone 0-2 with a 3.51 earned run average in 44 appearances for the Cubs in 2014. He departs the only franchise which has employed him at the major-league level with a 10-16 record, 3.87 ERA and three saves over 316 games since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The journeyman Bonifacio hit .279 with two homers, 14 doubles, three triples and 18 RBI over 69 contests during his first season with the Cubs. He&#8217;ll join his seventh MLB franchise in an eight-year career.<\/p>\n<p>Caratini, a native of Puerto Rico, was named a South Atlantic League All-Star for Single-A Rome, totaling four triples, five home runs, 18 doubles and 42 RBI along with a .279 average in 87 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Cubs continued to be sellers at Thursday&#8217;s non-waiver trade deadline, sending pitcher James Russell and utilityman Emilio Bonifacio to the Atlanta Braves for catching prospect Victor Caratini. Russell, a left-hander, has gone 0-2 with a 3.51 earned run average in 44 appearances for the Cubs in 2014. He departs [&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":[18,17,19,30,207,208],"class_list":["post-21550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-braves","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21550","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=21550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}