{"id":4478,"date":"2013-09-01T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/red-sox-designate-reliever-bard-for-assignment\/"},"modified":"2013-09-01T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T13:39:00","slug":"red-sox-designate-reliever-bard-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/red-sox-designate-reliever-bard-for-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox designate reliever Bard for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (Sports Network) &#8211; Reliever Daniel Bard was designated for assignment Sunday by the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Bard, who once pitched in at least 70 games in back-to-back seasons for the Red Sox, has only appeared in 19 major league games the past two seasons, including only two this year in April with a 9.00 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander has a career 3.67 ERA. He had a combined ERA of 2.62 in 2010 and 2011, when he pitched in 143 total games. Bard can now be claimed by another team.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox added outfielder Quintin Berry and infielder John McDonald to the active major league roster as September call-ups. The team acquired McDonald on Saturday from the Philadelphia Phillies and got Berry in a trade with the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In other moves, the Red Sox recalled right-hander Rubby De La Rosa and catcher Ryan Lavarnway from Triple-A Pawtucket and activated infielder Brandon Snyder from the 15-day disabled list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (Sports Network) &#8211; Reliever Daniel Bard was designated for assignment Sunday by the Boston Red Sox. Bard, who once pitched in at least 70 games in back-to-back seasons for the Red Sox, has only appeared in 19 major league games the past two seasons, including only two this year in April with a [&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":[177,188,189],"class_list":["post-4478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-red-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478","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=4478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}