{"id":21598,"date":"2014-08-01T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-dfa-roberts\/"},"modified":"2014-08-01T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T16:46:00","slug":"yankees-dfa-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-dfa-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees DFA Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Yankees designated veteran second baseman Brian Roberts for assignment on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The club also optioned infielder Zelous Wheeler and outfielder Zoilo Almonte to Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n<p>The moves opened roster spots for infielders Martin Prado and Stephen Drew, who were acquired in separate deals with Arizona and Boston before Thursday&#8217;s non-waiver trade deadline, and pitcher Esmil Rogers, who was claimed off waivers from Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts, 36, batted .237 with five home runs and 21 RBI in 91 games with the Yankees this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Yankees designated veteran second baseman Brian Roberts for assignment on Friday. The club also optioned infielder Zelous Wheeler and outfielder Zoilo Almonte to Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre. The moves opened roster spots for infielders Martin Prado and Stephen Drew, who were acquired in separate deals with Arizona and Boston before [&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":[59,58,60],"class_list":["post-21598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21598","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=21598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}