{"id":4518,"date":"2013-09-02T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/reds-call-up-speedster-hamilton\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T01:00:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T01:00:07","slug":"reds-call-up-speedster-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/reds-call-up-speedster-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds call up speedster Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati, OH (Sports Network) &#8211; The Cincinnati Reds selected the contract of outfielder Billy Hamilton from Triple-A Louisville on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The club also activated catcher Corky Miller from the 15-day disabled list, he had been sidelined with a right quad contusion, and recalled infielder Neftali Soto from Louisville.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton is the Reds&#8217; No. 1 prospect as ranked by MLB.com. He set a professional record with 155 stolen bases over 132 combined games in Single-A and Double-A last year.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old batted .256 in 123 games for Louisville this season, and he was leading the International League with 75 steals at the time of his promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Pitcher Pedro Villarreal was designated for assignment to make room on the 40- man roster for Hamilton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati, OH (Sports Network) &#8211; The Cincinnati Reds selected the contract of outfielder Billy Hamilton from Triple-A Louisville on Monday. The club also activated catcher Corky Miller from the 15-day disabled list, he had been sidelined with a right quad contusion, and recalled infielder Neftali Soto from Louisville. Hamilton is the Reds&#8217; No. 1 prospect [&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":[118,205,206],"class_list":["post-4518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-reds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518","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=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4555,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions\/4555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}