{"id":8039,"date":"2012-11-29T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=8039"},"modified":"2012-11-29T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T22:03:00","slug":"twins-trade-span-to-nats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=8039","title":{"rendered":"Twins Trade Span To Nats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/twonslogo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1312\" title=\"twinslogo\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/twonslogo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; The Washington Nationals have acquired outfielder Denard Span from the Minnesota Twins for minor league<br \/>\npitcher Alex Meyer, giving the reigning NL East champions a leadoff hitter and center fielder.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Span is a career .284 hitter with 23 home runs, 230 RBIs, 90<br \/>\nsteals and a .357 on-base percentage during five seasons with the<br \/>\nTwins.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The acquisition of Span allows the Nationals potentially to move<br \/>\n20-year-old Bryce Harper to left field, with Jayson Werth staying<br \/>\nin right. Michael Morse could then move to first base &#8211; the<br \/>\nposition played by free agent slugger Adam LaRoche.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Meyer went 10-6 with a 2.86 ERA at Class A this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; The Washington Nationals have acquired outfielder Denard Span from the Minnesota Twins for minor league pitcher Alex Meyer, giving the reigning NL East champions a leadoff hitter and center fielder. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Span is a career .284 hitter with 23 home runs, 230 RBIs, 90 steals and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039","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=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8040,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions\/8040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}