{"id":14293,"date":"2014-02-13T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rays-ship-lobaton-to-nationals\/"},"modified":"2014-02-13T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T14:58:00","slug":"rays-ship-lobaton-to-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rays-ship-lobaton-to-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays ship Lobaton to Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Rays announced on Thursday that the club has traded catcher Jose Lobaton to the Washington Nationals in a four-player deal.<\/p>\n<p>Washington will also receive minor league pitcher Felipe Rivero and outfielder Drew Vettleson in exchange for pitcher Nathan Karns.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Lobaton, who has spent the last three seasons in Tampa Bay, holds a career average of .228 with nine homers and 52 RBI in 191 games played.<\/p>\n<p>Lobaton is most remembered in Tampa for his game-winning home run off of Boston Red Sox closer Koji Uehara in Game 3 of the 2013 American League Division Series. He is expected to backup Wilson Ramos in the nation&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Karns, taken in the 12th round of the 2009 First Year Player Draft out of Texas Tech, was regarded as one of the Nationals&#8217; top prospects and made his big league debut this past season. The 26-year-old right-hander went 0-1 with a 7.50 earned run average in three starts for Washington in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Rays announced on Thursday that the club has traded catcher Jose Lobaton to the Washington Nationals in a four-player deal. Washington will also receive minor league pitcher Felipe Rivero and outfielder Drew Vettleson in exchange for pitcher Nathan Karns. The 29-year-old Lobaton, who has spent the last [&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":[193,191,67,190,95,192],"class_list":["post-14293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-rays","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14293","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=14293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}