{"id":21613,"date":"2014-08-01T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-place-newly-acquired-doubront-on-dl\/"},"modified":"2014-08-01T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T20:41:00","slug":"cubs-place-newly-acquired-doubront-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-place-newly-acquired-doubront-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs place newly acquired Doubront on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Cubs have placed newly acquired pitcher Felix Doubront on the disabled list with a left calf strain.<\/p>\n<p>Doubront, 26, was acquired from the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday for a player to be named. The southpaw went 2-4 with a 6.07 ERA in 17 appearances (10 starts) for Boston this season, compiling a 26-22 with three saves and a 4.82 ERA over 98 games &#8212; 69 starts &#8212; since making his debut with the Red Sox in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>To replace Doubront on the active roster, the Cubs recalled right-handed pitcher Blake Parker from Triple-A Iowa. Chicago also selected the contract of infielder Chris Valaika from Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>Parker has recorded 21 saves, which lead all of Triple-A baseball, and a 1.29 ERA in 28 games for Iowa while striking out 12.9 batters per nine innings.<\/p>\n<p>Valaika is batting .278 with 10 homers and 50 RBI in 102 games with Iowa this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Cubs have placed newly acquired pitcher Felix Doubront on the disabled list with a left calf strain. Doubront, 26, was acquired from the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday for a player to be named. The southpaw went 2-4 with a 6.07 ERA in 17 appearances (10 starts) for [&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":[30,207,208],"class_list":["post-21613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21613","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=21613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}