{"id":25427,"date":"2014-11-05T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-acquire-conger-from-angels\/"},"modified":"2014-11-05T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:13:00","slug":"astros-acquire-conger-from-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-acquire-conger-from-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros acquire Conger from Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros have acquired catcher Hank Conger from the Los Angeles Angels in exchange for catcher Carlos Perez and pitcher Nick Tropeano.<\/p>\n<p>Conger, a switch-hitter, batted .221 with four homers and 25 RBI in 80 games for the Angels this past season. The AL West champs went 42-28 in his 70 starts behind the plate.<\/p>\n<p>In 251 career games with the Angels, Conger hit .224 with 17 homers and 71 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Perez spent the 2014 season with Triple-A Oklahoma City, hitting .259 with 16 doubles, six homers and 34 RBI in 88 games.<\/p>\n<p>Tropeano made his MLB debut with Houston this season and went 1-3 with a 4.57 ERA in four starts. The right-hander was 9-5 with a 3.03 ERA in 23 games (20 starts) with Oklahoma City in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Houston Astros have acquired catcher Hank Conger from the Los Angeles Angels in exchange for catcher Carlos Perez and pitcher Nick Tropeano. Conger, a switch-hitter, batted .221 with four homers and 25 RBI in 80 games for the Angels this past season. The AL West champs went 42-28 in his [&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":[88,44,43,42,21,87],"class_list":["post-25427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-angels","tag-astros","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25427","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=25427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}