{"id":9927,"date":"2015-01-14T20:16:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T01:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9927"},"modified":"2015-01-14T20:16:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T01:16:58","slug":"athletics-sending-escobar-to-nationals-for-clippard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/01\/14\/athletics-sending-escobar-to-nationals-for-clippard\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics sending Escobar to Nationals for Clippard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7104\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7104\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/yunelescobar.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/yunelescobar.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/yunelescobar-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Nationals will acquire shortstop Yunel Escobar from the Athletics for reliever Tyler Clippard.<\/p>\n<p>Escobar was just traded to the Athletics last week from the Rays.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Clippard had a 2.18 ERA and 82\/23 K\/BB ratio in 70 1\/3 innings for the Nationals. Now arriving in Oakland he could move into their closer role.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Desmond&#8217;s name has been floated in trade talks for months so acquiring Esocar could free the Nationals up to move him or allow the team to play him at second base.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Tyler Clippard is involved in the deal.The deal is pending, I was informed.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nats?src=hash\">#Nats<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nationals?src=hash\">#Nationals<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MLB?src=hash\">#MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; William Ladson (@washingnats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingnats\/status\/555526552663117824\">January 15, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<strong>Rockies avoid arbitration with Chatwood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Rockies have avoided arbitration with right hander Tyler Chatwood reaching agreement on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Chatwood was limited to just 24 innings last season while dealing with injuries but should once again move into the Rockies rotation this spring. He had a 3.15 ERA in 20 starts during the 2013 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nationals will acquire shortstop Yunel Escobar from the Athletics for reliever Tyler Clippard. Escobar was just traded to the Athletics last week from the Rays. The 29-year-old Clippard had a 2.18 ERA and 82\/23 K\/BB ratio in 70 1\/3 innings for the Nationals. Now arriving in Oakland he could move into their closer role. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,699],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-yunel-escobar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927","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=9927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9928,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927\/revisions\/9928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9927"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}