{"id":153079,"date":"2025-08-17T12:28:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/153079\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:28:18","slug":"athletics-designate-veteran-3b-gio-urshela-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/153079\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics designate veteran 3B Gio Urshela for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 15, 2025, 06:24 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ath\/athletics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Athletics<\/a> designated third baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32721\/gio-urshela\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gio Urshela<\/a> for assignment Friday, while recalling infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5133869\/brett-harris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brett Harris<\/a> from Triple-A Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the A&#8217;s claimed left-handed pitcher Jared Shuster off waivers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chw\/chicago-white-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> and optioned him to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Urshela signed a one-year contract with the club in December. He was batting .238 with 20 RBI in 59 games for the last-place A&#8217;s, who are hosting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>He was on the injured list for three weeks with a strained left hamstring before returning June 17, but Urshela appeared in just 27 of 49 games and hit .253 after coming back.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Urshela batted .250 with nine home runs and 52 RBI last season between Detroit and Atlanta. A slick defensive player, he has also played for the Yankees, Cleveland, Toronto, Minnesota and the Angels during a 10-year major league career.<\/p>\n<p>Harris will make his season debut after batting .146 with three homers and 12 RBI for the team over two stints and 36 games last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 15, 2025, 06:24 PM ET WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8212; The Athletics designated third baseman Gio Urshela for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":153080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-153079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115044109809367592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153079","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=153079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}