{"id":9642,"date":"2014-12-11T10:49:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T15:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9642"},"modified":"2014-12-11T10:49:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T15:49:10","slug":"red-sox-trade-yoenis-cespedes-to-tigers-for-rick-porcello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/11\/red-sox-trade-yoenis-cespedes-to-tigers-for-rick-porcello\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox trade Yoenis Cespedes to Tigers for Rick Porcello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9643\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/yoeniscespedes.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9643\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/yoeniscespedes.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/yoeniscespedes-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Red Sox have dealt outfielder Yoenis Cespedes to the Tigers for starting pitcher Rick Porcello. After reports that the deal between the two was still alive FOX Sports&#8217; CJ Nitkowski confirmed it had been completed Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Also headed to Detroit is right handed reliver Alex Wilson and another low-level minor league pitcher. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Told Cespedes to Detroit, Porcello to Boston is done.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CJ Nitkowski (@CJNitkowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CJNitkowski\/status\/543051898186903552\">December 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Tigers have been looking to add an outfield bat and they get one with a power stroke in Cespdes. After splitting time between the Athletics and Red Sox the 28-year-old Cespedes is coming off a 2014 in which he hit .260\/.301\/.450 with 22 home runs and 100 RBI in 152 games.<\/p>\n<p>It was not a cheap trade though as the Tigers had to send the 25-year-old Porcello to Boston. The right hander is coming off the best season of his career in which he was 15-13 with a 3.43 ERA and a 1.23 WHIP across 204 2\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>Both Cespedes and Porcello will be free agents at the end of the 2015 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sox have dealt outfielder Yoenis Cespedes to the Tigers for starting pitcher Rick Porcello. After reports that the deal between the two was still alive FOX Sports&#8217; CJ Nitkowski confirmed it had been completed Thursday morning. Also headed to Detroit is right handed reliver Alex Wilson and another low-level minor league pitcher. Told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,66,892,891],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9642","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-detroit-tigers","10":"tag-rick-porcello","11":"tag-yoenis-cespdes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642","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=9642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9644,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642\/revisions\/9644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9642"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}