{"id":22756,"date":"2014-08-28T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-claim-jayson-nix-off-waivers\/"},"modified":"2014-08-28T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T19:11:00","slug":"royals-claim-jayson-nix-off-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-claim-jayson-nix-off-waivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals claim Jayson Nix off waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals claimed infielder Jayson Nix off waivers Thursday among a slew of roster moves.<\/p>\n<p>Nix was designated for assignment by the Pirates on Monday after batting .111 in 16 games for them. The seven-year veteran played 18 games for Philadelphia earlier this season before he was granted free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Thursday, the Royals activated pitcher Scott Downs from the 15-day disabled list, where he landed Aug. 12 with a stiff neck.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals recalled pitcher Michael Mariot from Triple-A Omaha and placed him on the 60-day disabled list with a right hamstring strain and optioned pitcher Liam Hendricks to Double-A Northwest Arkansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals claimed infielder Jayson Nix off waivers Thursday among a slew of roster moves. Nix was designated for assignment by the Pirates on Monday after batting .111 in 16 games for them. The seven-year veteran played 18 games for Philadelphia earlier this season before he was granted [&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":[110,216,217],"class_list":["post-22756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22756","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=22756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}