{"id":8412,"date":"2014-07-04T23:23:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T03:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8412"},"modified":"2014-07-04T23:23:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T03:23:56","slug":"athletics-acquire-jeff-samardzija-and-jason-hammel-from-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/04\/athletics-acquire-jeff-samardzija-and-jason-hammel-from-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics acquire Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel from Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/jeffsamardzija.jpg\" alt=\"jeffsamardzija\" width=\"594\" height=\"412\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7972\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/jeffsamardzija.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/jeffsamardzija-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Oakland Athletics acquired two starting pitchers from the Chicago Cubs late Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Both Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel have been traded from the Cubs to the Athletics. It&#8217;s surprising that the Cubs traded both pitchers at the same time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Cubs\/A&#39;s deal official. Samardzija and Hammel for Russell, McKinney, Straily, PTBNL. Analysis to follow on ESPN Insider.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; keithlaw (@keithlaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keithlaw\/statuses\/485254501092184065\">July 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In exchange for the pitchers, the Cubs have acquired short stop Addison Russell, starter Dan Straily and prospect outfielder Billy McKinney.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletics are clearing going for broke this season while the Cubs continue their rebuilding process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Athletics acquired two starting pitchers from the Chicago Cubs late Friday night. Both Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel have been traded from the Cubs to the Athletics. It&#8217;s surprising that the Cubs traded both pitchers at the same time. Cubs\/A&#39;s deal official. Samardzija and Hammel for Russell, McKinney, Straily, PTBNL. Analysis to follow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,503,201,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-cubs","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-jeff-samardzija","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412","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=8412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8413,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8412\/revisions\/8413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8412"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}