{"id":56,"date":"2016-08-14T23:19:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T23:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2017-10-25T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T17:47:13","slug":"the-washington-nationals-release-jonathan-papelbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2016\/08\/14\/the-washington-nationals-release-jonathan-papelbon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Nationals Release Jonathan Papelbon"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>The Washington Nationals<\/strong> have released pitcher Jonathan Papelbon<\/a> and recalled pitcher Reynaldo Lopez<\/a> according the team’s Twitter account.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Nats have recalled RHP Reynaldo Lopez from Triple-A Syracuse and released RHP Jonathan Papelbon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Washington Nationals (@Nationals) August 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Washington Nationals Release Jonathan Papelbon<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Nationals needed a spot on the 25-man roster for Reynaldo Lopez who is going to start for them against the Braves on Saturday. Jonathan Papelbon, 35, had recently requested his release from the team according to Jerry Crasnick<\/strong>.
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Papelbon has requested his release and #Nationals<\/a> are trying to figure out best way to do it, industry source says. Could be soon.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) August 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Papelbon was traded to the Nationals from the\u00a0Philadelphia Phillies<\/strong><\/span> for Nick Pivetta<\/a> before last year’s trade deadline. His stay with the Nationals was anything but successful.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Washington Nationals have released pitcher Jonathan Papelbon and recalled pitcher Reynaldo Lopez according the team’s Twitter account. The Nats have recalled RHP Reynaldo Lopez from Triple-A Syracuse and released RHP Jonathan Papelbon. \u2014 Washington Nationals (@Nationals) August 13, 2016 The Washington Nationals Release Jonathan Papelbon The Nationals needed a spot on the 25-man roster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":57,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,19],"tags":[37,38],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nationals","tag-jonathan-papelbon","tag-washington-nationals"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}