{"id":4217,"date":"2013-08-27T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/diamondbacks-designate-kubel-for-assignment\/"},"modified":"2013-08-27T18:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T18:41:00","slug":"diamondbacks-designate-kubel-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/diamondbacks-designate-kubel-for-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks designate Kubel for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix, AZ (Sports Network) &#8211; The Arizona Diamondbacks designated outfielder Jason Kubel for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Kubel had been signed as a free agent by Arizona from Minnesota in December of 2011, but the 31-year-old has struggled to a .220 average, five homers, eight doubles and 32 RBI in 89 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Kubel was placed on the DL on April 13 with a strained left quadriceps, which he suffered on April 5 against the Brewers, and missed a little more than two weeks of action.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona also selected the contract of pitcher David Holmberg from Double-A Mobile. The 22-year-old left-hander went 5-7 with a 2.66 earned run average in 25 starts for the Southern League club in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Holmberg will make his major league debut on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix, AZ (Sports Network) &#8211; The Arizona Diamondbacks designated outfielder Jason Kubel for assignment. Kubel had been signed as a free agent by Arizona from Minnesota in December of 2011, but the 31-year-old has struggled to a .220 average, five homers, eight doubles and 32 RBI in 89 games this season. Kubel was placed on [&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":[35,34,36],"class_list":["post-4217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-diamondbacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217","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=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}