{"id":1946,"date":"2013-04-06T15:33:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T19:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2013-04-06T16:24:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T20:24:52","slug":"rockies-acquire-aaron-harang-for-catcher-ramon-hernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/04\/06\/rockies-acquire-aaron-harang-for-catcher-ramon-hernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies acquire Aaron Harang for catcher Ramon Hernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1947\" alt=\"aaronharang\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/aaronharang.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/aaronharang.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/aaronharang-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two teams traded two unnecessary pieces on Saturday. The Los Angeles Dodgers shipped right handed pitcher Aaron Harang to the Colorado Rockies for catcher Ramon Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams had been trying to trade the pieces that did not fit into their active roster. Harang had been sent to the Dodgers bullpen to open the season while Hernandez failed to win a job on the Rockies roster.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers will use Hernandez as their backup catcher behind A.J. Ellis while the future is less clear for Harang. FOX Sports&#8217; Ken Rosenthal says that the Rockies are not expected to keep the pitcher. (They have designated him for assignment)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Source says <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23Rockies\">#Rockies<\/a> have a few teams interested in Harang, will play it out. Perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23RedSox\">#RedSox<\/a> will become option with injury to Lackey.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/320615815172988929\">April 6, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Rosenthal pointed out Lackey did leave his Saturday start with an <a title=\"John Lackey leaves game against Blue Jays with arm injury\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/04\/06\/john-lackey-leaves-game-against-blue-jays-with-arm-injury\/\">apparent injury<\/a> to his pitching arm.<\/p>\n<p>Harang has not appeared in a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two teams traded two unnecessary pieces on Saturday. The Los Angeles Dodgers shipped right handed pitcher Aaron Harang to the Colorado Rockies for catcher Ramon Hernandez. Both teams had been trying to trade the pieces that did not fit into their active roster. Harang had been sent to the Dodgers bullpen to open the season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[275,190,135,276],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aaron-harang","9":"tag-colorado-rockies","10":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","11":"tag-ramon-hernandez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","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=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}