{"id":4345,"date":"2013-08-30T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/indians-ink-shoppach-to-minor-league-deal\/"},"modified":"2013-08-30T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T13:34:00","slug":"indians-ink-shoppach-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/indians-ink-shoppach-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians ink Shoppach to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (Sports Network) &#8211; The Cleveland Indians have agreed to terms with Kelly Shoppach on a minor league deal and assigned the veteran catcher to Triple-A Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>Shoppach, 33, played for the Indians from 2006-09. He began the 2013 season with Seattle, but was released after hitting .196 in 35 games. Since then, he spent time with the Triple-A affiliates of the Washington Nationals and Pittsburgh Pirates, but ultimately was released from both squads.<\/p>\n<p>For his major league career, Shoppach has hit .224 with 70 homers and 216 RBI over 571 games with Boston, Cleveland, Tampa Bay, the New York Mets and Mariners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (Sports Network) &#8211; The Cleveland Indians have agreed to terms with Kelly Shoppach on a minor league deal and assigned the veteran catcher to Triple-A Columbus. Shoppach, 33, played for the Indians from 2006-09. He began the 2013 season with Seattle, but was released after hitting .196 in 35 games. Since then, he [&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":[54,53,55],"class_list":["post-4345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-indians","tag-indians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345","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=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}