{"id":9388,"date":"2014-11-14T23:35:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T04:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9388"},"modified":"2014-11-14T23:35:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T04:35:04","slug":"diamondbacks-acquire-jeremy-hellickson-in-trade-with-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/11\/14\/diamondbacks-acquire-jeremy-hellickson-in-trade-with-rays\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks acquire Jeremy Hellickson in trade with Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9389\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/jeremyhellickson.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"447\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9389\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/jeremyhellickson.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/11\/jeremyhellickson-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Arizona Diamondbacks have added to their rotation with the acquisition of starting pitcher Jeremy Hellickson.<\/p>\n<p>A former Rookie of the Year, Hellickson has struggled in recent years to stay healthy but he gets a new lease on his career with a trade. Of concern is that Hellickson is a flyball pitcher heading to Chase Field. <\/p>\n<p>Hellickson, 27, made 13 starts last season posting a 4.52 ERA and a 1.45 WHIP. <\/p>\n<p>In exchange for Hellickson the Rays picked up outfielder Justin Williams and shortstop Andrew Velazquez.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 19, hit .351\/.403\/.467 with four homers and 46 RBI in 74 contests between Rookie League Missoula and Class-A South Bend in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Velazquez had a solid year at Class-A South Bend hitting .290\/.367\/.428 while scoring 94 runs and stealing a eye popping 50 bases.<\/p>\n<p>Both Velazquez and Williams are years away from contributing at the big league level but make a nice return for the Rays. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Diamondbacks have added to their rotation with the acquisition of starting pitcher Jeremy Hellickson. A former Rookie of the Year, Hellickson has struggled in recent years to stay healthy but he gets a new lease on his career with a trade. Of concern is that Hellickson is a flyball pitcher heading to Chase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[125,503,802,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-jeremy-hellickson","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388","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=9388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9390,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388\/revisions\/9390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9388"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}