{"id":115813,"date":"2025-08-03T14:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115813\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:32:11","slug":"astros-john-rooney-dealt-to-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115813\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros&#8217; John Rooney: Dealt to Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/HOU\/houston-astros\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/320.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/HOU\/houston-astros\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Astros<\/a> acquired <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2933065\/rooney\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rooney<\/a> from the Marlins in exchange for cash considerations and added him to the 40-man roster and 26-man active roster ahead of Sunday&#8217;s series finale in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander Luis Contreras was optioned to Triple-A Sugar Land to make room in the bullpen for Rooney, who has spent the last seven-plus seasons in the minors and will be making his MLB debut if and when he gets into a game. A 28-year-old southpaw, Rooney posted a 2.45 ERA, 1.27 WHIP and 45:23 K:BB in 33 innings over his 33 appearances out of the Triple-A Jacksonville bullpen in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Astros acquired Rooney from the Marlins in exchange for cash considerations and added him to the 40-man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[2084,4345,2382,72662,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-115813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-fantasy-baseball","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-astros","11":"tag-john-rooney","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114965325212510699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}