{"id":571162,"date":"2023-01-25T00:06:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T00:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=571162"},"modified":"2023-02-04T00:47:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T00:47:01","slug":"red-sox-designate-reliever-matt-barnes-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/red-sox-designate-reliever-matt-barnes-for-assignment","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox designate reliever Matt Barnes for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following Xander Bogaerts&#8217; exit, Barnes was the longest-tenured player on the Red Sox roster.Matt Barnes appeared in 429 games with Boston over nine seasons. (Photo by Greg Fiume\/Getty Images)The Red Sox are moving on from the longest-tenured player on their roster.Reliever Matt Barnes was designated for assignment on Tuesday, removing him from the 40-man roster.The 32-year-old righty played nine seasons in Boston, making his debut back in 2014. The Danbury, Connecticut, native appeared in 429 games with the Red Sox, the third-most pitching outings in team history.Barnes&#8217; removal is a corresponding move after Boston officially announced its one-year deal with outfielder Adam Duvall.Barnes appeared in 44 games with Boston in 2022, going 0-4 with a 4.31 ERA and a WHIP of 1.437.The UConn product saw his role slip in the Sox bullpen over the last two seasons.Barnes earned an All-Star nod in 2021, holding batters to a .171 average and striking out 62 over 37 innings through the first week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Xander Bogaerts&#8217; exit, Barnes was the longest-tenured player on the Red Sox roster. The Red Sox are moving on from the longest-tenured player on their roster. Reliever Matt Barnes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}