{"id":4597,"date":"2013-08-31T14:45:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T18:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2013-08-31T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T18:45:40","slug":"pirates-pick-up-justin-morneau-from-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/31\/pirates-pick-up-justin-morneau-from-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates pick up Justin Morneau from Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4598\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4598\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/justinmorneau.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/justinmorneau.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/justinmorneau-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates added the bat of Justin Morneau on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Morneau, 32, is a former American League MVP but has struggled at times to return to form after suffering a concussion in 2010.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Pirates&amp;src=hash\">#Pirates<\/a> acquire Morneau from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Twins&amp;src=hash\">#Twins<\/a> for OF Alex Presley.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/373873556461219840\">August 31, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This season Morneau was hitting .259\/.315\/.426 with 17 home runs and 74 RBI through 495 at-bats. In Pittsburgh the addition of Morneau spells the end of the platoon of Garrett Jones and Gaby Sanchez at first.<\/p>\n<p>In order to acquire Moreneau the Pirates sent outfielder Alex Presley to the Twins. Presley, 28, should see plenty of playing time in the Twins outfield.<\/p>\n<p>Morneau will be a free agent at the end of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates added the bat of Justin Morneau on Saturday. Morneau, 32, is a former American League MVP but has struggled at times to return to form after suffering a concussion in 2010. Source: #Pirates acquire Morneau from #Twins for OF Alex Presley. \u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) August 31, 2013 &nbsp; This season Morneau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[422,134,112],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-justin-morneau","9":"tag-minnesota-twins","10":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597","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=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}