{"id":909,"date":"2013-06-29T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/dbacks-activate-putz\/"},"modified":"2013-06-29T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T13:24:00","slug":"dbacks-activate-putz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/dbacks-activate-putz\/","title":{"rendered":"D&#8217;backs activate Putz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Arizona Diamondbacks activated relief pitcher J.J. Putz from the 15-day disabled list on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona closer had missed 46 games after landing on the disabled list with a strained right elbow on May 8.<\/p>\n<p>Heath Bell has filled in admirably in his absence, converting 13-of-15 save opportunities over the stretch.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if Putz will retain the closer&#8217;s role going forward. In the 14 games he appeared in prior to the DL stint, Putz was 5-for-9 in save chances with a 4.26 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona cleared a spot on the roster by optioning pitcher Zeke Spruill to Triple-A Reno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Arizona Diamondbacks activated relief pitcher J.J. Putz from the 15-day disabled list on Saturday. The Arizona closer had missed 46 games after landing on the disabled list with a strained right elbow on May 8. Heath Bell has filled in admirably in his absence, converting 13-of-15 save opportunities over [&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":[35,34,36],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-diamondbacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}