{"id":410,"date":"2013-03-26T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nationals-release-chris-young\/"},"modified":"2013-03-26T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T17:35:00","slug":"nationals-release-chris-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nationals-release-chris-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals release Chris Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viera, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Washington Nationals granted pitcher Chris Young his unconditional release Tuesday after informing the veteran he would not make the team&#8217;s Opening Day roster.<\/p>\n<p>Young, who received a non-roster invite from the Nationals last month, had an opt-out clause in his contract that he intended to exercise had he not broken camp with the club.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old went 1-0 with a 2.25 earned run average in four Grapefruit League starts with the Nationals, but the defending National League East champions already have their five-man rotation set with Stephen Strasburg, Gio Gonzalez, Jordan Zimmermann, Dan Haren and Ross Detwiler.<\/p>\n<p>Young posted a 4-9 record with a 4.15 ERA in 20 starts for the New York Mets in 2012 and owns a 53-43 mark with a 3.79 ERA over 159 career outings with Texas, San Diego and the Mets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viera, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Washington Nationals granted pitcher Chris Young his unconditional release Tuesday after informing the veteran he would not make the team&#8217;s Opening Day roster. Young, who received a non-roster invite from the Nationals last month, had an opt-out clause in his contract that he intended to exercise had he not [&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":[193,95,192],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","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=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}