{"id":804,"date":"2013-06-24T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-send-down-gonzalez-dfa-leblanc\/"},"modified":"2013-06-24T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T18:50:00","slug":"astros-send-down-gonzalez-dfa-leblanc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-send-down-gonzalez-dfa-leblanc\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros send down Gonzalez, DFA LeBlanc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (Sports Network) &#8211; The Houston Astros made a pair of roster moves on Monday, optioning infielder Marwin Gonzalez to Triple-A Oklahoma City and designating pitcher Wade LeBlanc for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez has started 46 of the Astros&#8217; 77 games at shortstop this season, but is batting just .191 since May 1. For the year, the switch-hitter has posted a .230 average with four home runs, 14 RBI and five stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>LeBlanc pitched three games in relief for Houston after being claimed off waivers from Miami on June 8, allowing five runs (four earned) over 3 2\/3 innings. The left-hander was cut loose by the Marlins following a 1-5 start to the season in which he recorded a 5.18 earned run average over 13 appearances (7 starts) and allowed six home runs over 48 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old owns a 20-32 career record with a 4.52 ERA over 95 major league games (68 starts) with the Astros, Marlins and San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n<p>Houston will add two players to its active roster prior to Tuesday&#8217;s start of a two-game series with St. Louis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (Sports Network) &#8211; The Houston Astros made a pair of roster moves on Monday, optioning infielder Marwin Gonzalez to Triple-A Oklahoma City and designating pitcher Wade LeBlanc for assignment. Gonzalez has started 46 of the Astros&#8217; 77 games at shortstop this season, but is batting just .191 since May 1. For the year, [&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":[44,43,42],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-astros","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","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=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}