{"id":704,"date":"2013-06-18T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rockies-deal-of-young-to-mets\/"},"modified":"2013-06-18T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T23:56:00","slug":"rockies-deal-of-young-to-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rockies-deal-of-young-to-mets\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies deal OF Young to Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Mets acquired outfielder Eric Young Jr. from the Colorado Rockies for pitcher Collin McHugh Tuesday in a trade of players recently designated for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Young was removed from the Rockies&#8217; 40-man roster last week after hitting just .242 with one home run and eight stolen bases in 57 games. The speedy switch- hitter batted .316 with four homers and 14 steals in a utility role last season, however, and owns a career .261 average with 70 steals in 313 major league games.<\/p>\n<p>McHugh was designated for assignment by the Mets on Saturday after allowing eight earned runs in seven innings over three appearances at the big league level. The 25-year-old is 0-5 with an 8.26 ERA over 11 career games, including five starts, in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets designated outfielder Collin Cowgill for assignment to make room for Young on the active roster. The 27-year-old hit just .173 with two homers and eight RBI in 52 at-bats with New York this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Mets acquired outfielder Eric Young Jr. from the Colorado Rockies for pitcher Collin McHugh Tuesday in a trade of players recently designated for assignment. Young was removed from the Rockies&#8217; 40-man roster last week after hitting just .242 with one home run and eight stolen bases in [&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":[210,209,187,59,186,211],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-mets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-rockies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","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=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}