{"id":8446,"date":"2014-07-07T12:14:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T16:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8446"},"modified":"2014-07-07T12:14:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T16:14:46","slug":"why-brandon-mccarthys-wife-is-happy-about-trade-to-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/07\/why-brandon-mccarthys-wife-is-happy-about-trade-to-yankees\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Brandon McCarthy&#8217;s wife is happy about trade to Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/brandonmccarthy.jpg\" alt=\"brandonmccarthy\" width=\"594\" height=\"422\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8447\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/brandonmccarthy.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/brandonmccarthy-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nA few days ago Brandon McCarthy was traded from the Arizona Diamondbacks to the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy should give the Yankees a viable right handed arm for their rotation but someone else close to McCarthy has another reason to be happy about the trade. That person is his wife Amanda.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Haha <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BMcCarthy32\">@BMcCarthy32<\/a> you have to shave that nasty thing growing on your face! I WIN<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Amanda McCarthy (@Mrs_McCarthy32) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mrs_McCarthy32\/statuses\/485832665170718720\">July 6, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Yankees do not allow beards, which means McCarthy will have to shave his face.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yankees\">@Yankees<\/a>: .<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BMcCarthy32\">@BMcCarthy32<\/a> discusses being traded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Yankees?src=hash\">#Yankees<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/mRawMshieF\">http:\/\/t.co\/mRawMshieF<\/a>\u201d don&#39;t forget that razor!!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Amanda McCarthy (@Mrs_McCarthy32) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mrs_McCarthy32\/statuses\/485851480537444352\">July 6, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>McCarthty has a 5.01 ERA and a 1.38 WHIP this season. He allowed just three runs in his last 12 2\/3 innings of work moving to 3-10 in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago Brandon McCarthy was traded from the Arizona Diamondbacks to the New York Yankees. McCarthy should give the Yankees a viable right handed arm for their rotation but someone else close to McCarthy has another reason to be happy about the trade. That person is his wife Amanda. Haha @BMcCarthy32 you have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[128,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-brandon-mccarthy","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8446","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=8446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8448,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8446\/revisions\/8448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8446"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}