{"id":8683,"date":"2014-07-31T16:32:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8683"},"modified":"2014-07-31T16:32:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:32:27","slug":"yankees-pick-up-martin-prado-from-dbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/31\/yankees-pick-up-martin-prado-from-dbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees pick up Martin Prado from Dbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/martinprado.jpg\" alt=\"martinprado\" width=\"594\" height=\"411\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8684\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/martinprado.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/martinprado-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Arizona Diamondbacks continued to trade away players from a team 14 games under .500 on the season.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Prado was acquired by the New York Yankees for catcher Peter O&#8217;Brien and a player to be named later or cash.<\/p>\n<p>Prado, 30, was hitting .270\/.317\/.370 in 436 plate appearances for the Diamondbacks this year while playing mostly third base. He was a large part of a deal that sent Justin Upton to the Atlanta Braves in January of 2013. The Braves had also been linked to Prado as the 4 pm ET trade deadline approached this year in a deal that was said to be including BJ Upton.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien, 24, is hitting .267\/.312\/.593 with 33 home runs between High-A and Double-A in 413 plate appearances. <\/p>\n<p>The Yankees also traded Kelly Johnson to the Boston Red Sox in a trade that saw Stephen Drew head to the Yankees. On July 22 the Yankees picked up Chase Headley from San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Diamondbacks continued to trade away players from a team 14 games under .500 on the season. Martin Prado was acquired by the New York Yankees for catcher Peter O&#8217;Brien and a player to be named later or cash. Prado, 30, was hitting .270\/.317\/.370 in 436 plate appearances for the Diamondbacks this year while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,818,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-martin-prado","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683","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=8683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8685,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions\/8685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8683"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}