{"id":3440,"date":"2013-08-10T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rangers-add-rios-to-roster\/"},"modified":"2013-08-10T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T15:53:00","slug":"rangers-add-rios-to-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rangers-add-rios-to-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers add Rios to roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (Sports Network) &#8211; The Texas Rangers added Alex Rios to the active roster on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Texas acquired the outfielder and cash considerations from the Chicago White Sox in exchange for a player to be named later or cash considerations on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Rios batted .277 with 12 home runs, 22 doubles, 26 stolen bases and 55 RBI in 109 games for the White Sox this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Rios has a career batting average of .278 with 311 doubles, 155 homers, 211 stolen bases and 682 RBI over 1,408 games with Toronto (2004-09) and Chicago (2009-13). He was an All-Star in 2006 and 2007.<\/p>\n<p>To make room on the roster, the Rangers optioned outfielder Joey Butler to Triple-A Round Rock.<\/p>\n<p>Butler hit a pair of doubles and scored two runs over his two-game call-up from the minors on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He was hitting .290 with 10 homers, 21 doubles and 44 RBI at Round Rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (Sports Network) &#8211; The Texas Rangers added Alex Rios to the active roster on Saturday. Texas acquired the outfielder and cash considerations from the Chicago White Sox in exchange for a player to be named later or cash considerations on Friday. Rios batted .277 with 12 home runs, 22 doubles, 26 stolen bases [&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":[16,15,14],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","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=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}