{"id":22055,"date":"2014-08-14T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pirates-pick-up-axford-off-waivers\/"},"modified":"2014-08-14T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T19:34:00","slug":"pirates-pick-up-axford-off-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pirates-pick-up-axford-off-waivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates pick up Axford off waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit, MI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Pirates claimed pitcher John Axford off waivers from the Cleveland Indians on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Axford had signed a one-year deal with Cleveland last December to serve in the closer&#8217;s role, but had been relieved of those duties in early May and has been pitching as a middle reliever since.<\/p>\n<p>On the season, he is 2-3 with a 3.92 earned run average in 49 games.<\/p>\n<p>Over six seasons, Axford has a 24-22 mark with a 3.38 ERA in 330 games, all out of the bullpen. He has recorded 116 saves and 380 strikeouts in 317 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit, MI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Pirates claimed pitcher John Axford off waivers from the Cleveland Indians on Thursday. Axford had signed a one-year deal with Cleveland last December to serve in the closer&#8217;s role, but had been relieved of those duties in early May and has been pitching as a middle reliever since. On [&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":[54,53,55,180,143,179],"class_list":["post-22055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-indians","tag-indians","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22055","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=22055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}