{"id":7737,"date":"2014-05-15T13:28:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T17:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7737"},"modified":"2014-05-15T13:28:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T17:28:53","slug":"as-acquire-kyle-blanks-from-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/15\/as-acquire-kyle-blanks-from-padres\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;s acquire Kyle Blanks from Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/kyleblanks.jpg\" alt=\"kyleblanks\" width=\"594\" height=\"414\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/kyleblanks.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/kyleblanks-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Oakland Athletics have acquired first baseman and corner outfielder Kyle Blanks from the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n<p>Blanks, 27, was once a top 50 prospect and has a big body but has been unable to make that translate into stats at the major league level.<\/p>\n<p>In parts of six seasons with the Padres he owns a .228\/.310\/.401 line with 28 home runs in 239 career games.<\/p>\n<p>The A&#8217;s sent infielder Jake Goebbert to the Padres in exchange for Blanks. Goebbert, a former 13th round pick, was batting .257\/.371\/.505 with six home runs and 25 RBI in 31 games this season with Triple-A Sacramento. He&#8217;s viewed as merely a utility player going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Athletics have acquired first baseman and corner outfielder Kyle Blanks from the San Diego Padres. Blanks, 27, was once a top 50 prospect and has a big body but has been unable to make that translate into stats at the major league level. In parts of six seasons with the Padres he owns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[744,501,272,355],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-7737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-kyle-blanks","tag-mlb","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-san-diego-padres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737","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=7737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7739,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions\/7739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7737"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}