{"id":616,"date":"2013-06-14T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/tigers-activate-of-jackson\/"},"modified":"2013-06-14T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T13:38:00","slug":"tigers-activate-of-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/tigers-activate-of-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers activate OF Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (Sports Network) &#8211; The Detroit Tigers activated outfielder Austin Jackson from the 15-day disabled list Friday and optioned outfielder Avisail Garcia to Triple-A Toledo.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson was hitting .272 with two home runs and 11 runs batted in through 34 games before a strained right hamstring forced him to the DL on May 12.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old center fielder is expected to return to his role as the leadoff hitter when the Tigers open a three-game series Friday in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia batted .288 with a pair of homers and 10 RBI in 24 games during Jackson&#8217;s stint on the DL.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Friday, the Tigers agreed to terms with 19 players from last week&#8217;s First-Year Player Draft, including first-round pick (20th overall) pitcher Jonathon Crawford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (Sports Network) &#8211; The Detroit Tigers activated outfielder Austin Jackson from the 15-day disabled list Friday and optioned outfielder Avisail Garcia to Triple-A Toledo. Jackson was hitting .272 with two home runs and 11 runs batted in through 34 games before a strained right hamstring forced him to the DL on May 12. [&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":[51,61,62],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","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=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}