{"id":8391,"date":"2014-07-02T17:57:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T21:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2014-07-02T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T21:57:22","slug":"rockies-acquire-pitcher-jair-jurrjens-from-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/02\/rockies-acquire-pitcher-jair-jurrjens-from-reds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies acquire pitcher Jair Jurrjens from Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/jairjurrjens.jpg\" alt=\"jairjurrjens\" width=\"675\" height=\"539\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/jairjurrjens.jpg 675w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/jairjurrjens-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><br \/>\nFile this one under where are they now.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Rockies have acquired pitcher Jair Jurrjens from the Cincinnati Reds for infielder Harold Riggins. <\/p>\n<p>Jurrjens, 28, had struggled at Triple-A Louisville prior to the trade posting a 4.46 ERA, 1.60 WHIP, and 27\/13 K\/BB ratio through 34 1\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>&quot;I&#39;m gonna call him J.J., I know that much,&quot; Walt Weiss said of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rockies?src=hash\">#Rockies<\/a> trading for Jair Jurrjens today. More details coming&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nick Groke (@nickgroke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickgroke\/statuses\/484441850380443648\">July 2, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Even with his struggles considered, Jurrjens becomes an option for the Rockies who have baeball&#8217;s worst ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Jurrjens best seasn came back in 2009 with the Atlanta Braves when he started  NL high 34 games posting  2.60 ERA and a 1.21 WHIP. Since then injuries and ineffectiveness have taken its toll as he has made just 13 appearances since the start of the 2012 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this one under where are they now. The Colorado Rockies have acquired pitcher Jair Jurrjens from the Cincinnati Reds for infielder Harold Riggins. Jurrjens, 28, had struggled at Triple-A Louisville prior to the trade posting a 4.46 ERA, 1.60 WHIP, and 27\/13 K\/BB ratio through 34 1\/3 innings of work. &quot;I&#39;m gonna call him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[182],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jair-jurrjens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391","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=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8392,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions\/8392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}