{"id":3563,"date":"2013-08-14T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-acquire-bonifacio-from-blue-jays\/"},"modified":"2013-08-14T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T13:36:00","slug":"royals-acquire-bonifacio-from-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-acquire-bonifacio-from-blue-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals acquire Bonifacio from Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals have acquired veteran infielder\/outfielder Emilio Bonifacio from the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for a player to be named or cash considerations.<\/p>\n<p>Bonifacio hit .218 with 16 doubles, three homers, 20 RBI and 12 stolen bases in 94 games with the Blue Jays this season. On Nov. 19, 2012, the switch- hitter was traded to the Toronto along with Josh Johnson, Jose Reyes, John Buck and Mark Buehrle.<\/p>\n<p>In 570 career games with the Diamondbacks, Nationals, Marlins and Blue Jays, Bonifacio has hit .261 with 69 doubles, 10 homers, 120 RBI and 122 stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>His younger brother, Jorge, is an outfield prospect in the Royals&#8217; organization, currently at Double-A with Northwest Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p>To make room for Bonifacio on the 40-man roster, Kansas City transferred infielder Miguel Tejada to the 60-day disabled list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals have acquired veteran infielder\/outfielder Emilio Bonifacio from the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for a player to be named or cash considerations. Bonifacio hit .218 with 16 doubles, three homers, 20 RBI and 12 stolen bases in 94 games with the Blue Jays this season. [&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":[116,110,216,217,115,114],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-blue-jays","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-royals","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","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=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}