{"id":743152,"date":"2026-07-04T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/743152\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T20:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:00:14","slug":"nationals-claim-matt-krook-designate-andre-granillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/743152\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals Claim Matt Krook, Designate Andre Granillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/author\/mark-polishuk\" title=\"Posts by Mark Polishuk\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Polishuk<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at July 4, 2026 2:57pm CDT  <\/p>\n<p>The Nationals announced that left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/krookma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-04_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matt Krook<\/a> has been claimed off waivers from the Athletics.\u00a0 To create roster space for Krook, the Nats designated right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/granian01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-04_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andre Granillo<\/a> for assignment and optioned righty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=kentza01,kent--001zak&amp;search=Zak+Kent&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-04_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zak Kent<\/a> to Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Mark Polishuk | at July 4, 2026 2:57pm CDT The Nationals announced that left-hander Matt Krook has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22908,5,12349,4,464],"class_list":["post-743152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-andre-granillo","tag-baseball","tag-matt-krook","tag-mlb","tag-zak-kent"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116863488745502290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}