{"id":11671,"date":"2013-12-18T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-swing-trade-with-twins-for-doumit\/"},"modified":"2013-12-18T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T19:08:00","slug":"braves-swing-trade-with-twins-for-doumit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-swing-trade-with-twins-for-doumit\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves swing trade with Twins for Doumit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves acquired veteran catcher Ryan Doumit in a trade with Minnesota on Wednesday, with pitching prospect Sean Gilmartin going to the Twins in the two-player swap.<\/p>\n<p>A nine-year veteran in the majors, Doumit is a .268 career hitter with 99 home runs and 396 RBI over 880 total games. The switch-hitter hit .247 with 14 homers and 55 RBI in 135 games for the Twins last season.<\/p>\n<p>Doumit provides the Braves a third catcher to share time with Evan Gattis and Gerald Laird and a proven bat off the bench, as he possesses a .262 average as a pinch-hitter. The 32-year-old also offers versatility, having started 105 games in the outfield and 32 at first base during his previous stops with the Twins and Pittsburgh Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>Gilmartin was the Braves&#8217; first-round selection in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft who entered last season ranked as the organization&#8217;s No. 5 prospect by MLB.com. The left-hander had a disappointing 2013 campaign, however, going just 3-8 with a 5.74 ERA in 17 starts for Triple-A Gwinnett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves acquired veteran catcher Ryan Doumit in a trade with Minnesota on Wednesday, with pitching prospect Sean Gilmartin going to the Twins in the two-player swap. A nine-year veteran in the majors, Doumit is a .268 career hitter with 99 home runs and 396 RBI over 880 total games. [&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":[18,17,19,72,214,215],"class_list":["post-11671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-braves","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671","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=11671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}