{"id":21743,"date":"2014-08-05T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-call-up-baez\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T17:30:00","slug":"cubs-call-up-baez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-call-up-baez\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs call up Baez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver, CO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Cubs selected the contract of prized infield prospect Javier Baez from Triple-A Iowa prior to Tuesday&#8217;s game against the Colorado Rockies.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs&#8217; first-round pick in 2011, Baez entered 2014 ranked as the club&#8217;s number one prospect by Baseball America after being named the organization&#8217;s player of the year in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In 104 games with Iowa this season, Baez hit .260 with 24 doubles, 23 home runs and 80 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Baez batted .278 with 73 doubles, 76 home runs, 238 RBI and 62 stolen bases in 319 minor league games over the last four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs also optioned pitcher Blake Parker to Iowa. The right-hander was 1-1 with a 6.57 ERA in nine games with the Cubs this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver, CO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Cubs selected the contract of prized infield prospect Javier Baez from Triple-A Iowa prior to Tuesday&#8217;s game against the Colorado Rockies. The Cubs&#8217; first-round pick in 2011, Baez entered 2014 ranked as the club&#8217;s number one prospect by Baseball America after being named the organization&#8217;s player of the year [&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-21743","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\/21743","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=21743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}