{"id":11328,"date":"2013-12-11T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/as-ship-blevins-to-washington\/"},"modified":"2013-12-11T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:33:00","slug":"as-ship-blevins-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/as-ship-blevins-to-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;s ship Blevins to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Buena Vista, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Oakland Athletics have sent reliever Jerry Blevins to the Washington Nationals for minor league outfielder Billy Burns.<\/p>\n<p>The left-handed Blevins spent parts of the last seven seasons with the A&#8217;s and last year was a valuable part of Oakland&#8217;s bullpen, going 5-0 with a 3.15 ERA in 67 appearances. He also held opponents to a .218 batting average against while possessing a 5.60 strikeout-to-walk ratio against left-handed batters in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Blevins was 13-6 with a 3.30 ERA over the course of his career with the A&#8217;s, while averaging 8.1 strikeouts per nine innings.<\/p>\n<p>Burns, meanwhile, was a 32nd round pick of the Nats in 2011 and last year swiped a career-high 74 bases in 121 games between Single-A Potomac and Double-A Harrisburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Buena Vista, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Oakland Athletics have sent reliever Jerry Blevins to the Washington Nationals for minor league outfielder Billy Burns. The left-handed Blevins spent parts of the last seven seasons with the A&#8217;s and last year was a valuable part of Oakland&#8217;s bullpen, going 5-0 with a 3.15 ERA in 67 [&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":[41,193,40,39,95,192],"class_list":["post-11328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-athletics","tag-nationals","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328","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=11328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}