{"id":288480,"date":"2015-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/padres-call-up-c-austin-hedges-from-el-paso\/"},"modified":"2015-05-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T07:00:00","slug":"padres-call-up-c-austin-hedges-from-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/padres-call-up-c-austin-hedges-from-el-paso\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres call up C Austin Hedges from El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Padres on May 4 made the following roster moves:<br \/>\nSelected C Austin Hedges from Triple-A El Paso and designated C Wil Nieves for assignment. Hedges, who will wear No. 18, will be making his first Major League appearance with his first big league call-up. He was originally signed by the Padres as a second-round selection in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft and is rated by MLB.com as being the fourth-best catching prospect in all of baseball. Baseball America rates Hedges as the No. 4 prospect in the Padres organization heading into this season.<br \/>\nHis .324 average with El Paso this season ranked fourth-best among catchers in the Pacific Coast League, while his .914 OPS ranked third-best among PCL catchers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Padres on May 4 made the following roster moves: Selected C Austin Hedges from Triple-A El Paso and designated C Wil Nieves for assignment. Hedges, who will wear No. 18, will be making his first Major League appearance with his first big league call-up. He was originally signed by the Padres as [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":288481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Padres call up C Austin Hedges from El Paso","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11600,11553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sdnews","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}