{"id":3407,"date":"2013-08-09T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/delmon-young-dfad-by-phillies\/"},"modified":"2013-08-09T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T14:36:00","slug":"delmon-young-dfad-by-phillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/delmon-young-dfad-by-phillies\/","title":{"rendered":"Delmon Young DFA&#8217;d by Phillies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (Sports Network) &#8211; The Philadelphia Phillies have designated Delmon Young for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>The move clears a spot on the 40-man roster for fellow outfielder Casper Wells, who the Phillies claimed off waivers from the Chicago White Sox on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Young, 27, signed a one-year contract with the Phillies over the winter after helping the Detroit Tigers to a World Series appearance. The 2012 ALCS MVP underwent offseason ankle surgery and didn&#8217;t debut for Philadelphia until late April.<\/p>\n<p>The former No. 1 overall pick batted .261 with eight homers and 31 RBI over 80 games with the Phillies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (Sports Network) &#8211; The Philadelphia Phillies have designated Delmon Young for assignment. The move clears a spot on the 40-man roster for fellow outfielder Casper Wells, who the Phillies claimed off waivers from the Chicago White Sox on Thursday. Young, 27, signed a one-year contract with the Phillies over the winter after helping [&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":[64,194,195],"class_list":["post-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407","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=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}