{"id":10807,"date":"2013-12-03T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/as-add-closer-johnson-in-trade-with-os\/"},"modified":"2013-12-03T00:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T00:41:00","slug":"as-add-closer-johnson-in-trade-with-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/as-add-closer-johnson-in-trade-with-os\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;s add closer Johnson in trade with O&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Oakland Athletics have acquired closer Jim Johnson from the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for infielder Jemile Weeks and a player to be named later.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Johnson recorded a major league-best 101 saves over the previous two years with the Orioles. He totaled a club-record 51 saves in 54 opportunities and a 2.49 earned run average in 2012. Last season, the right- hander saved 50 games and compiled a 2.94 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson had spent his entire major league career with Baltimore, going 18-26 with a 3.11 ERA in 360 games.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks was Oakland&#8217;s first-round selection in the 2008 draft. After playing at least 97 games with the A&#8217;s in 2011 and 2012, he spent the majority of the 2013 campaign with Triple-A Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old batted .271 with four homers, 10 triples, 19 doubles and 40 RBI in 130 games for Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>In 223 career major league games, Weeks is a .258 hitter with four homers, 16 triples, 41 doubles and 56 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Oakland Athletics have acquired closer Jim Johnson from the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for infielder Jemile Weeks and a player to be named later. The 30-year-old Johnson recorded a major league-best 101 saves over the previous two years with the Orioles. He totaled a club-record 51 saves in 54 opportunities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,12,45,40,39,46],"class_list":["post-10807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-athletics","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-orioles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}