{"id":9838,"date":"2015-01-01T21:24:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T02:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9838"},"modified":"2015-01-01T21:24:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T02:24:55","slug":"yankees-acquire-david-carpenter-from-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/01\/01\/yankees-acquire-david-carpenter-from-braves\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees acquire David Carpenter from Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/davidcarpenter.jpg\" alt=\"davidcarpenter\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9839\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/davidcarpenter.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/01\/davidcarpenter-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe New York Yankees traded away Manny Banuelos to the Atlanta Braves for David Carpenter and Chasen Shreve on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A former top pitching prospect, the 23-year-old Banuelos missed all of 2012 and part of 2013 while recovering from Tommy John surgery. The left-hander went 2-3 with a 4.11 ERA in 26 combined appearances (25 starts) at three levels of the minors this past season. <\/p>\n<p>The Braves may give Banuelos a chance to compete for a rotation spot this spring. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Braves continued to part with pieces of a team that won just 79 games a year ago. The latest players to be shipped out were a couple of bullpen pieces in Carpenter and Shreve.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter, 29, was 6-4 with three saves while posting a 3.54 ERA and a 1.26 WHIP in 65 games for the Braves. He should fall into a setup role at the backend of the Yankees bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>Shreve, 24, a left-handed reliever, made his big league debut in July and allowed one run over 12 1\/3 innings of work. He very well could also land one of the bullpen spots with the Yankees for 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees traded away Manny Banuelos to the Atlanta Braves for David Carpenter and Chasen Shreve on Thursday. A former top pitching prospect, the 23-year-old Banuelos missed all of 2012 and part of 2013 while recovering from Tommy John surgery. The left-hander went 2-3 with a 4.11 ERA in 26 combined appearances (25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,912,789,913,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-chasen-shreve","10":"tag-david-carpenter","11":"tag-manny-banuelos","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9838","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=9838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9840,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9838\/revisions\/9840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9838"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}