{"id":4129,"date":"2013-07-31T15:30:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T19:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2013-07-31T15:30:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T19:30:42","slug":"padres-officially-acquire-rhp-ian-kennedy-from-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/31\/padres-officially-acquire-rhp-ian-kennedy-from-diamondbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres officially acquire RHP Ian Kennedy from Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4131\" alt=\"kennedy\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/kennedy.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/kennedy.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/kennedy-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The San Diego Padres acquired Ian Kennedy from the Arizona Diamondbacks for\u00a0 LHP Joe Thatcher, RHP Matt Stites and a compensation B draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>Stites 23, is 2-2 with a 2.08 ERA and 14 saves in 46 games with Double-A San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>The Diamondbacks confirmed the trade in a news release Wednesday afternoon, less than two hours before baseball&#8217;s non-waiver trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, 28, had a 3.55 ERA over 98 starts from 2010-2012. Although he\u00a0 struggled this season, going 3-8 with a 5.23 ERA in 21 starts, he should benefit from a more pitcher-friendly environment at Petco Park in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy is poised to receive a raise from his $4.27 million salary via arbitration this winter, and is not eligible for free agency until 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Padres acquired Ian Kennedy from the Arizona Diamondbacks for\u00a0 LHP Joe Thatcher, RHP Matt Stites and a compensation B draft pick. Stites 23, is 2-2 with a 2.08 ERA and 14 saves in 46 games with Double-A San Antonio. The Diamondbacks confirmed the trade in a news release Wednesday afternoon, less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129","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=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}