{"id":3932,"date":"2012-06-20T00:13:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T04:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2012-06-20T00:13:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T04:13:15","slug":"bulls-archer-a-clayton-native-to-get-at-least-two-starts-to-show-his-stuff-in-the-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=3932","title":{"rendered":"Bulls&#8217; Archer, a Clayton native, to get at least two starts to show his stuff in the majors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/archerbulls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/archerbulls.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"archerbulls\" width=\"179\" height=\"244\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3933\" \/><\/a>Pitcher Chris Archer, a 23-year-old from Clayton, is jumping to the major leagues from the Durham Bulls &#8211; for a couple of starts at least.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is for Tampa Bay Rays&#8217; Jeremy Hellickson to miss his next two starts and for Archer to fill his spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arch is ready to roll, really calm about the whole moment,&#8221; Tampa Bay coach Joe Maddon said. &#8220;We had a nice conversation. All I want to do is have him go out there [Wednesday] and be himself. Don&#8217;t worry about the scouting reports. Go out there and throw his fastball see what happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Archer was 4-8 with a 4.81 ERA in 14 starts for the Bulls. He leads the International League with 90 strikeouts. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think words can really describe your Major League debut, especially being a starter,&#8221; Archer said. &#8220;I got drafted in 2006 and it&#8217;s been a dream of mine since I was real small to do this. I know only a small percentage of people get to do it, and I&#8217;m going to make the most of it.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitcher Chris Archer, a 23-year-old from Clayton, is jumping to the major leagues from the Durham Bulls &#8211; for a couple of starts at least&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3934,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions\/3934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}