{"id":3774,"date":"2013-07-22T17:43:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T21:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2013-07-22T17:43:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T21:43:57","slug":"texas-rangers-acquire-matt-garza-from-chicago-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/22\/texas-rangers-acquire-matt-garza-from-chicago-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers acquire Matt Garza from Chicago Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3777\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3777\" alt=\"garza2\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/garza2.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/garza2.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/garza2-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Kersey\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Texas Rangers have acquired right-handed pitcher Matt Garza from the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Final deal: Cubs trade Matt Garza to the Rangers for Mike Olt, C.J. Edwards, Justin Grimm and PTBNL.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/statuses\/359423862015926272\">July 22, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Garza, 29, is 6-1 on the season with a 3.17 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>It is being reported that Garza is headed to Arlington, while Mike Olt, right-handed prospect C.J. Edwards, Justin Grimm and a fourth unidentified player are headed to Chicago in return.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, one that went back and forth for many days, and then seemed to hit a snag on Friday was completed just hours before Garza was set to start Monday for the Cubs. The Cubs called off Garza&#8217;s start when the deal got close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Rangers have acquired right-handed pitcher Matt Garza from the Chicago Cubs. Final deal: Cubs trade Matt Garza to the Rangers for Mike Olt, C.J. Edwards, Justin Grimm and PTBNL. \u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 22, 2013 &nbsp; Garza, 29, is 6-1 on the season with a 3.17 ERA. It is being reported that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-3774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}