{"id":3088,"date":"2013-07-31T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-acquire-maxwell-from-astros\/"},"modified":"2013-07-31T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T16:08:00","slug":"royals-acquire-maxwell-from-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-acquire-maxwell-from-astros\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals acquire Maxwell from Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals acquired outfielder Justin Maxwell from the Houston Astros Wednesday for pitcher Kyle Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The injury-riddled Maxwell is hitting .241 with two homers and eight RBI in 40 games this season. The 29-year-old missed nearly two months after suffering a fractured left hand in April and then missed more time due to a mild concussion after diving for a fly ball during a game against the St. Louis Cardinals on June 26.<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell batted .229 with 18 homers and 53 RBI in 124 games for Houston a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Smith started 19 games for High-A Wilmington and went 5-4 with a 2.85 ERA over 104 1\/3 innings pitched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals acquired outfielder Justin Maxwell from the Houston Astros Wednesday for pitcher Kyle Smith. The injury-riddled Maxwell is hitting .241 with two homers and eight RBI in 40 games this season. The 29-year-old missed nearly two months after suffering a fractured left hand in April and [&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":[44,43,42,110,216,217],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-astros","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","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=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}