{"id":6770,"date":"2014-03-19T10:05:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6770"},"modified":"2014-03-19T10:05:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T14:05:59","slug":"dbacks-willing-to-trade-gregorius-not-owings-in-search-for-pitcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/19\/dbacks-willing-to-trade-gregorius-not-owings-in-search-for-pitcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Dbacks willing to trade Gregorius, not Owings in search for pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6771\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6771\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/didigregorius.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6771\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/didigregorius.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/didigregorius-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Arizona Diamondbacks are seeking to acquire a major league ready starting pitcher after they lost Opening Day starter Patrick Corbin to a UCL tear.<\/p>\n<p>To acquire a starter for their rotation the Diamondbacks have made Didi Gregorius available via trade. The shortstop has lost out to Chris Owings for the starting gig in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/new-york\/mets\/post\/_\/id\/82774\/source-d-backs-peddling-didi-not-owings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN New York<\/a>, the Diamondbacks sent scouts to watch a game involving Double-A and Triple-A members of the New York Mets minor league system. The scouts watched Noah Syndergaard, Logan Verrett and Jacob deGrom pitch though Syndergaard is not considered to be in any discussions.<\/p>\n<p>The Diamondbacks will surely be scouring the waiver wire and awaiting any late cuts in camp as well.<\/p>\n<p>Gregorius, 24, hit .252 with seven homers and 28 RBIs and had a .332 on-base percentage in 404 plate appearances with the D-backs last season. The Diamondbacks acquired him in a three-way deal in December of 2012 which also set Shin-Soo Choo to Cincinnati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Diamondbacks are seeking to acquire a major league ready starting pitcher after they lost Opening Day starter Patrick Corbin to a UCL tear. To acquire a starter for their rotation the Diamondbacks have made Didi Gregorius available via trade. The shortstop has lost out to Chris Owings for the starting gig in Arizona. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[125,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-front","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770","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=6770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6772,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions\/6772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6770"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}