{"id":7160,"date":"2013-10-31T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/indians-release-perez-re-sign-giambi\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T15:39:00","slug":"indians-release-perez-re-sign-giambi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/indians-release-perez-re-sign-giambi\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians release Perez, re-sign Giambi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cleveland Indians gave closer Chris Perez his unconditional release. They also re-signed designated hitter Jason Giambi to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training and acquired left-hander Colt Hynes from the San Diego Padres in exchange for cash considerations.<\/p>\n<p>Perez, who is now a free agent, went 5-3 with a 4.33 ERA in 54 relief appearances in 2013. He and his wife were found guilty of misdemeanor marijuana possession in September.<\/p>\n<p>Giambi, 42, hit .183 with nine home runs and 31 RBI in 71 games this past season, his first in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>Hynes, 28, posted a 9.00 ERA with 13 strikeouts in 22 appearances with the Padres in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cleveland Indians gave closer Chris Perez his unconditional release. They also re-signed designated hitter Jason Giambi to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training and acquired left-hander Colt Hynes from the San Diego Padres in exchange for cash considerations. Perez, who is now a free agent, went [&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":[54,53,55],"class_list":["post-7160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-indians","tag-indians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160","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=7160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}