{"id":9769,"date":"2014-12-19T23:06:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T04:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9769"},"modified":"2014-12-19T23:06:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T04:06:06","slug":"padres-acquire-will-middlebrooks-in-trade-ryan-hanigan-headed-to-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/19\/padres-acquire-will-middlebrooks-in-trade-ryan-hanigan-headed-to-red-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres acquire Will Middlebrooks in trade, Ryan Hanigan headed to Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7110\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7110\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/willmiddlebrooks.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7110\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/willmiddlebrooks.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/willmiddlebrooks-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Padres continued adding to their offense on Friday picking up infielder WIll Middlebrooks.<\/p>\n<p>Middlebrooks, 26, was once a top prospect of the Red Sox but he has clearly fallen out of flavor in Boston after hititng just .191\/.256\/.265 with two home runs and 19 RBI in 63 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox signed Pablo Sandoval early this offseason which meant that Middlebrooks was getting moved sooner or later. <\/p>\n<p>In exchange for Middlebrooks the Red Sox picked up catcher Ryan Hanign.<\/p>\n<p>Hanigan, 34, is nothing to get excited about as he owns a career .256\/.353\/.341 line and has been absolutely dreadful the last two seasons at the plate. Known for his defense he will open the season sharing catching duties with Christian Vazquez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Padres continued adding to their offense on Friday picking up infielder WIll Middlebrooks. Middlebrooks, 26, was once a top prospect of the Red Sox but he has clearly fallen out of flavor in Boston after hititng just .191\/.256\/.265 with two home runs and 19 RBI in 63 games last season. The Red Sox signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,501,902,355,700],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9769","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-mlb","10":"tag-ryan-hanigan","11":"tag-san-diego-padres","12":"tag-will-middlebrooks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9769","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=9769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9770,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9769\/revisions\/9770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9769"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}