{"id":8651,"date":"2014-07-30T18:49:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T22:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2014-07-30T18:49:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T22:49:54","slug":"pirates-royals-and-marlins-all-interested-in-ian-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/30\/pirates-royals-and-marlins-all-interested-in-ian-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates, Royals and Marlins all interested in Ian Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/iankennedy.jpg\" alt=\"iankennedy\" width=\"594\" height=\"409\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/iankennedy.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/iankennedy-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nWith the MLB trade deadline approaching one player who has been in the headlines recently is San Diego Padres pitcher Ian Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy is not a certainty to be moved at the deadline but FOX Sports&#8217; Ken Rosenthal reports that the Kansas City Royals, Pittsburgh Pirates and Miami Marlins have all expressed interest in the 29-year-old right hander.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres reason for keeping Kennedy is because he has a year of arbitration left. However given Kennedy&#8217;s success this season they want to strike while the iron is hot.<\/p>\n<p>In 22 starts this season Kennedy is jsut 8-9 but boasts a 3.66 ERA and a 1.22 WHIP. He has a 143\/42 K\/BB ratio on the season. <\/p>\n<p>The Padres are also considering trades for reliever Joaquin Benoit with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cleveland Indians being two potential landing places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the MLB trade deadline approaching one player who has been in the headlines recently is San Diego Padres pitcher Ian Kennedy. Kennedy is not a certainty to be moved at the deadline but FOX Sports&#8217; Ken Rosenthal reports that the Kansas City Royals, Pittsburgh Pirates and Miami Marlins have all expressed interest in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,608,501,355],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-ian-kennedy","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego-padres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651","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=8651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8653,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions\/8653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8651"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}