{"id":7338,"date":"2014-04-18T19:24:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T23:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7338"},"modified":"2014-04-18T19:24:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T23:24:28","slug":"pirates-acquire-ike-davis-from-mets-for-pair-of-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/18\/pirates-acquire-ike-davis-from-mets-for-pair-of-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates acquire Ike Davis from Mets for pair of players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/ikedavis.jpg\" alt=\"ikedavis\" width=\"580\" height=\"419\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7097\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/ikedavis.jpg 580w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/ikedavis-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><br \/>\nThose Ike Davis to the Pirates rumors have been going on for months. On Friday the first baseman was traded to Pittsburgh for Zack Thornton and a player to be named later.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, 27, is 5-for-24 (.208) this season with one home run which happened to be a walk-off grand slam.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Pirates&amp;src=hash\">#Pirates<\/a> have acquired 1B Ike Davis from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Mets&amp;src=hash\">#Mets<\/a> in exchange for Zack Thornton and a PTBN.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pirates\/statuses\/457290729635602432\">April 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Davis was linked to Tampa Bay, Baltimore and Milwaukee in trade talk this winter in addition to the Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates will use Davis against right handed pitchers while Gabby Sanchez will continue to hit against left hander. A spot needs to be opened up on the 40-man roster for Davis, something the Pirates should announce soon.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton, 25, had a 2.63 ERA with 10.8 K\/9 in 75 1\/3 minor league relief innings last season. He will join the Mets bullpen immediately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fantasy Impact:<\/strong> With the trade Davis figures to get regular playing time with the Pirate while Lucas Duda of the Mets will also see a tick up in his playing time with Davis out of the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those Ike Davis to the Pirates rumors have been going on for months. On Friday the first baseman was traded to Pittsburgh for Zack Thornton and a player to be named later. Davis, 27, is 5-for-24 (.208) this season with one home run which happened to be a walk-off grand slam. The #Pirates have acquired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[363,76,112],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ike-davis","9":"tag-new-york-mets","10":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338","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=7338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7340,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338\/revisions\/7340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7338"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}