Cleveland, OH (Sports Network) – A month after serving a stint as the team’s closer, the Cleveland Indians optioned reliever Vinnie Pestano to Triple-A Columbus on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The move was made to accommodate the Indians’ addition of lefty specialist Marc Rzepczynski, acquired by the club in a trade with St. Louis on Tuesday. Rzepczynski will be available out of the bullpen for Wednesday’s game against the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n
Pestano put together two straight effective seasons as a setup man for the Indians in 2011 and 2012, with the right-hander finishing second in the American League with 36 holds last year while posting a 2.57 earned run average over 70 appearances. His ERA has risen to 4.05 in 34 games this season, however, and he’s allowed six home runs in 33 1\/3 innings pitched.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old did convert six consecutive save opportunities while filling in for injured closer Chris Perez in June, though.<\/p>\n
Rzepczynski has also struggled this season, allowing nine runs and 16 hits over 10 1\/3 innings with the Cardinals and spending a good portion of the campaign with Triple-A Memphis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cleveland, OH (Sports Network) – A month after serving a stint as the team’s closer, the Cleveland Indians optioned reliever Vinnie Pestano to Triple-A Columbus on Wednesday. The move was made to accommodate the Indians’ addition of lefty specialist Marc Rzepczynski, acquired by the club in a trade with St. Louis on Tuesday. Rzepczynski will […]<\/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],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-indians","tag-indians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","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=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}