{"id":762,"date":"2013-06-21T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-take-brignac-off-roster\/"},"modified":"2013-06-21T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T17:52:00","slug":"yankees-take-brignac-off-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-take-brignac-off-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees take Brignac off roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Yankees designated infielder Reid Brignac for assignment prior to Friday&#8217;s game against the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees acquired Brignac from the Colorado Rockies on May 18 to add depth at shortstop with Derek Jeter still recovering from last October&#8217;s broken ankle, but he batted just .114 with no RBI in 17 games with the club.<\/p>\n<p>New York selected the contract of infielder Alberto Gonzalez from Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes Barre to fill Brignac&#8217;s role as a utility infielder.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez, whom the Yankees obtained in a trade with the Chicago Cubs in early May, went 3-for-9 in three games with New York last month before being outrighted off the roster following Brignac&#8217;s acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old has played in 416 major league games with five different teams (the Yankees, Washington, San Diego, Texas and the Cubs) and owns a .242 lifetime average with four home runs and 87 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Yankees designated infielder Reid Brignac for assignment prior to Friday&#8217;s game against the Tampa Bay Rays. The Yankees acquired Brignac from the Colorado Rockies on May 18 to add depth at shortstop with Derek Jeter still recovering from last October&#8217;s broken ankle, but he batted just .114 [&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":[59,58,60],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","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=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}