{"id":9275,"date":"2014-11-01T14:33:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T18:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9275"},"modified":"2014-11-01T14:33:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T18:33:34","slug":"brewers-acquire-adam-lind-from-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/01\/brewers-acquire-adam-lind-from-blue-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers acquire Adam Lind from Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/adamlind.jpg\" alt=\"adamlind\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8493\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/adamlind.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/adamlind-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Milwaukee Brewers have acquired Adam Lind from the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for pitcher Marco Estrada.<\/p>\n<p>Lind had his $7.5 million option for 2015 picked up today by the Blue Jays but his chances to return to the team always were in question especially after the team made a move to add Justin Smoak days ago.<\/p>\n<p>When healthy Lind has proven to be a valuable and productive part of the lineup hitting .301\/.366\/.490 with 29 homers and 107 RBI over 239 games the past two seasons with the Jays.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for Lind the Blue Jays are picking up 31-year-old pitcher Marco Estrada. Estrada is coming off a down season in which he appeared in 39 games &#8211; including 18 starts &#8211; producing a 4.36 ERA and a 1.20 WHIP over 150 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Entering his final year of arbitration, the Blue Jays will hope that a change of scenery will return him to the pitcher that had a 3.87 ERA and 1.08 WHIP in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Brewers have acquired Adam Lind from the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for pitcher Marco Estrada. Lind had his $7.5 million option for 2015 picked up today by the Blue Jays but his chances to return to the team always were in question especially after the team made a move to add Justin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[295,503,224,501,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-adam-lind","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275","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=9275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9276,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions\/9276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9275"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}