{"id":26944,"date":"2014-12-09T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-sign-infielder-callaspo\/"},"modified":"2014-12-09T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T15:14:00","slug":"braves-sign-infielder-callaspo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-sign-infielder-callaspo\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves sign infielder Callaspo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves have apparently agreed to deal with infielder Alberto Callaspo.<\/p>\n<p>Although terms of the agreement are unknown, Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez confirmed the pact, pending a physical, to MLB Network Radio.<\/p>\n<p>Callaspo had an awful 2014 season for the Oakland Athletics, hitting just .223 with a .290 on-base percentage in 127 games.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Callaspo has spent the majority of his nine-year big league career at third base, but has also seen time at second, shortstop and the outfield corners. The hope is that he&#8217;ll be able to handle the starting second base duties until top prospect Jose Pereza is ready.<\/p>\n<p>Callaspo is a career .267 hitter over 996 games with the Arizona Diamondbacks, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Angels and A&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves have apparently agreed to deal with infielder Alberto Callaspo. Although terms of the agreement are unknown, Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez confirmed the pact, pending a physical, to MLB Network Radio. Callaspo had an awful 2014 season for the Oakland Athletics, hitting just .223 with a .290 on-base [&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":[18,17,19],"class_list":["post-26944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-braves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26944","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=26944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}