{"id":8637,"date":"2014-07-28T20:29:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T00:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8637"},"modified":"2014-07-28T20:29:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T00:29:17","slug":"red-sox-not-interested-in-acquiring-matt-kemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/28\/red-sox-not-interested-in-acquiring-matt-kemp\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox not interested in acquiring Matt Kemp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7126\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/mattkemp.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"392\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7126\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/mattkemp.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/mattkemp-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Boston Red Sox are not currently looking to acquire Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors about a potential trade of Kemp to the Red Sox have floated around multiple times this season but <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcount.weei.com\/sports\/boston\/baseball\/red-sox\/2014\/07\/28\/jon-lester-updates-with-talks-likely-likelihood-of-trade-growing-but-not-one-with-matt-kemp\/\">WEEI&#8217;s<\/a> Rob Bradford says that the Red Sox are &#8220;not looking to trade for the Dodgers outfielder at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few teams are interested in Kemp but given that he is still owed $107 million, the Dodgers are going to have to eat a substantial amount of money to move him.<\/p>\n<p>Contending teams have been contacting the Red Sox about pitchers Jon Lester and John Lackey. Given the Dodgers desire to add a pitcher some have reasoned that Kemp could be involved in a trade for Lester.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp, 29, is hitting .277\/.343\/.432 with eight home runs and 40 RBI in 95 games this season for the Dodgers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox are not currently looking to acquire Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp. Rumors about a potential trade of Kemp to the Red Sox have floated around multiple times this season but WEEI&#8217;s Rob Bradford says that the Red Sox are &#8220;not looking to trade for the Dodgers outfielder at the moment.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,503,814,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-boston-red-sox","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-matt-kemp-los-angeles-dodgers","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637","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=8637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8638,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions\/8638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8637"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}