{"id":10593,"date":"2016-01-08T23:04:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T04:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10593"},"modified":"2016-01-08T23:04:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T04:04:01","slug":"blue-jays-acquire-drew-storen-ben-revere-headed-to-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2016\/01\/08\/blue-jays-acquire-drew-storen-ben-revere-headed-to-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays acquire Drew Storen, Ben Revere headed to Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/drewstoren.jpg\" alt=\"drewstoren\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10595\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/drewstoren.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/drewstoren-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays and Nationals completed a trade on Saturday. Reliever Drew Storen will be heading to Toronto while outfielder Ben Revere heads to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Storen became expendable last July when the Nationals made a trade at the deadline to acquire Jonathan Papelbon from the Phillies. The move was met with questions across the fanbase and the league as the 28-year-old Storen had performed well as the teams closer. He owns a 3.02 ERA and a 1.13 WHIP in 334 big league innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays bullpen is still a work in progress. Storen could play anywhere from setup man to closer. He will compete with Roberto Osuna for the ninth inning duties this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Revere, 27, helps fill the Nationals outfield.\u00a0Last season Revere hit .306\/.342\/.377 while being successful in 31 of 38 steal attempts. Arbitration eligible this\u00a0year, he is under team control though 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Jays and Nationals completed a trade on Saturday. Reliever Drew Storen will be heading to Toronto while outfielder Ben Revere heads to Washington. Storen became expendable last July when the Nationals made a trade at the deadline to acquire Jonathan Papelbon from the Phillies. The move was met with questions across the fanbase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[985,984,503,501,95,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ben-revere","9":"tag-drew-storen","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","13":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10596,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions\/10596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10593"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}