{"id":230499,"date":"2021-07-22T20:26:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T01:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=230499"},"modified":"2021-07-23T08:03:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T13:03:12","slug":"twins-all-star-cruz-traded-to-tampa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=230499","title":{"rendered":"Twins All-Star Cruz Traded to Tampa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Cruzphoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-183845\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Cruzphoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Cruzphoto.jpg 164w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Cruzphoto-133x175.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\" \/><\/a>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays added a big bat for the remainder of the season, acquiring slugger Nelson Cruz from the Minnesota Twins. Moments before opening a four-game series at Cleveland, the Rays announced they got Cruz and minor leaguer Calvin Faucher from Minnesota in exchange for right-handers Joe Ryan and Drew Strotman. The 41-year-old Cruz has 436 career homers and will bring some pop to Tampa Bay&#8217;s lineup. He&#8217;s batting .294 with 19 homers and 50 RBIs this season. The Rays entered Thursday one game behind first-place Boston in the AL East<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays added a big bat for the remainder of the season, acquiring slugger Nelson Cruz from the Minnesota Twins. Moments before opening a four-game series at Cleveland, the Rays announced they got Cruz and minor leaguer Calvin Faucher from Minnesota in exchange for right-handers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":230533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230534,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230499\/revisions\/230534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}