{"id":651,"date":"2013-06-15T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/twins-plouffe-comes-off-dl\/"},"modified":"2013-06-15T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T17:53:00","slug":"twins-plouffe-comes-off-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/twins-plouffe-comes-off-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins&#8217; Plouffe comes off DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (Sports Network) &#8211; The Minnesota Twins activated third baseman Trevor Plouffe from the 15-day disabled list prior to Saturday&#8217;s game against the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>Plouffe, who has not played since May 21 due to a concussion and a strained left calf, is in the starting lineup for Saturday&#8217;s tilt and will bat sixth.<\/p>\n<p>The former first-round pick missed over a week after being kicked in the head while trying to break up a double play at Atlanta on May 21, then injured his calf before returning to action after being reinstated from the 7-day concussion DL.<\/p>\n<p>Plouffe was batting .254 with four home runs and 17 RBI in 37 games prior to the head injury.<\/p>\n<p>Catcher\/outfielder Chris Hermann, who went 6-for-13 with a home run in a seven-game stint with the Twins, was optioned to Triple-A Rochester in a corresponding move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (Sports Network) &#8211; The Minnesota Twins activated third baseman Trevor Plouffe from the 15-day disabled list prior to Saturday&#8217;s game against the Detroit Tigers. Plouffe, who has not played since May 21 due to a concussion and a strained left calf, is in the starting lineup for Saturday&#8217;s tilt and will bat sixth. [&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":[72,214,215],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}