{"id":3717,"date":"2013-07-20T00:54:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T04:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2013-07-20T00:54:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T04:54:35","slug":"matt-garza-trade-to-rangers-hits-snag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/20\/matt-garza-trade-to-rangers-hits-snag\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Garza trade to Rangers hits snag"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3695\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3695\" style=\"width: 673px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3695\" alt=\"garza\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/garza.jpg\" width=\"673\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/garza.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/garza-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Brian Kersey\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>The trade sending starting pitcher Matt Garza to the Texas Rangers is no longer a certainty.<\/p>\n<p>After the trade was ruled 99% done it has hit a snag. The hold up appears to be which prospects the Rangers will send back to the Chicago Cubs for Garza.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs are now listening to offers from other teams.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/garza-trade-to-rangers-falls-through-after-medical-records-exchanged-000611579.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo Sports<\/a>, the Rangers have offered some collection of third baseman Mike Olt and starting pitchers Neil Ramirez and C.J. Edwards. The Rangers also have expressed interest in Cubs left-handed reliever James Russell.<\/p>\n<p>Garza is 6-1 with a 3.17 ERA over 11 starts this season and is considered to be the best starting pitcher available via trade. Garza will become a free agent at seasons end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trade sending starting pitcher Matt Garza to the Texas Rangers is no longer a certainty. After the trade was ruled 99% done it has hit a snag. The hold up appears to be which prospects the Rangers will send back to the Chicago Cubs for Garza. The Cubs are now listening to offers from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,409,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-matt-garza","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}