{"id":9661,"date":"2014-12-12T12:44:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9661"},"modified":"2014-12-12T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:44:44","slug":"padres-remain-interested-in-justin-upton-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/12\/padres-remain-interested-in-justin-upton-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres remain interested in Justin Upton trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/justinupton.jpg\" alt=\"justinupton\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8837\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/justinupton.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/justinupton-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Braves continue to field offers for outfielder Justin Upton and according to MLB.com&#8217;s Mark Bowman the Padres are one team that continues to show interest.<\/p>\n<p>Even after picking up Matt Kemp in a trade with the division rival Dodgers the Padres are looking more more bats for their offense. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Padres?src=hash\">#Padres<\/a> remain one of the clubs pursuing J-Up. I wouldn&#39;t be shocked if J-Up and Kemp are together in San Diego next year.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlbbowman\/status\/543432429038743552\">December 12, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Other teams who have shown interest in Upton are the Orioles, Royals, Rangers and Giants. With a surplus of outfielders after the signing of Nick Markakis the Braves are trying to unload Upton who is a free agent at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Upton had two productive seasons with the Braves. In 2014 he hit .270\/.342\/.491 with 29 home runs and set a career high with 102 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Braves continue to field offers for outfielder Justin Upton and according to MLB.com&#8217;s Mark Bowman the Padres are one team that continues to show interest. Even after picking up Matt Kemp in a trade with the division rival Dodgers the Padres are looking more more bats for their offense. The #Padres remain one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,270,501,355],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-justin-upton","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-san-diego-padres"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661","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=9661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9662,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions\/9662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9661"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}