{"id":9470,"date":"2012-12-26T15:29:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=9470"},"modified":"2012-12-26T15:29:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:29:02","slug":"red-sox-pirates-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=9470","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox, Pirates Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (AP Dec 26, 2012) &#8211; The Red Sox have acquired All-Star closer Joel Hanrahan from the Pittsburgh Pirates in a six-player deal.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Boston completed the trade Wednesday, also receiving infielder Brock Holt. The Red Sox gave up right-handers Mark Melancon and Stolmy Pimentel, infielder Ivan DeJesus Jr. and first baseman-outfielder Jerry Sands.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Over the past two seasons, the right-handed Hanrahan had 76 saves, fourth most in the National League, and a 2.24 ERA. Last season, he was 5-2 with a 2.72 ERA and 36 saves.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Holt spent most of last season at Double-A Altoona, then hit .292 in 24 games with the Pirates, all in September.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Melancon was 0-2 with a 6.20 ERA in 41 relief appearances in his only season with Boston. Pimentel spent the season at Double-A Portland. Sands and DeJesus were obtained in a trade that sent Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Aug. 25.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (AP Dec 26, 2012) &#8211; The Red Sox have acquired All-Star closer Joel Hanrahan from the Pittsburgh Pirates in a six-player deal. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Boston completed the trade Wednesday, also receiving infielder Brock Holt. The Red Sox gave up right-handers Mark Melancon and Stolmy Pimentel, infielder Ivan DeJesus Jr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470","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=9470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9472,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470\/revisions\/9472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}