{"id":22614,"date":"2014-08-25T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pirates-recall-tabata-option-polanco-to-triple-a\/"},"modified":"2014-08-25T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T15:43:00","slug":"pirates-recall-tabata-option-polanco-to-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pirates-recall-tabata-option-polanco-to-triple-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates recall Tabata, option Polanco to Triple A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Pirates announced several roster moves on Monday, including the selection of outfielder Jose Tabata&#8217;s contract from Triple-A Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Tabata last appeared in the majors on June 22, then was sent outright to Indy two days later. Prior to the demotion, the 26-year-old native of Venezuela hit .289 with four doubles and 14 RBI over 62 games.<\/p>\n<p>Tabata batted .281 with 12 runs batted in over 39 games for the Pirates&#8217; Triple-A club.<\/p>\n<p>To make room for Tabata, the Bucs optioned rookie outfielder Gregory Polanco to Indianapolis. Pittsburgh also reinstated infielder Clint Barmes from the 15-day disabled list and designated infielder Jayson Nix for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Polanco, rated one of the game&#8217;s top prospects, had six homers, 30 RBI and 12 steals along with a .241 average in 64 games after being promoted to the majors on June 10.<\/p>\n<p>Barmes hasn&#8217;t seen action since June 29 and was placed on the DL July 6 due to a left groin strain. In his third season with the franchise, Barmes batted .239 over 42 appearances before getting hurt.<\/p>\n<p>After being signed by the Pirates on Aug. 3, Nix saw action in 16 games, hitting .111 (4-for-36).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Pirates announced several roster moves on Monday, including the selection of outfielder Jose Tabata&#8217;s contract from Triple-A Indianapolis. Tabata last appeared in the majors on June 22, then was sent outright to Indy two days later. Prior to the demotion, the 26-year-old native of Venezuela hit .289 with four [&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":[180,143,179],"class_list":["post-22614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22614","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=22614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}