{"id":192,"date":"2013-02-04T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-acquire-prospects-from-as-for-lowrie-rodriguez\/"},"modified":"2013-02-04T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T18:32:00","slug":"astros-acquire-prospects-from-as-for-lowrie-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-acquire-prospects-from-as-for-lowrie-rodriguez\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros acquire prospects from A&#8217;s for Lowrie, Rodriguez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (Sports Network) &#8211; The Houston Astros acquired infielder Chris Carter, pitcher Brad Peacock and catcher Max Stassi from the Oakland Athletics in exchange for shortstop Jed Lowrie and pitcher Fernando Rodriguez on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This trade gives us power, pitching and catching,&#8221; Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow said. &#8220;Three valuable commodities that will help improve our organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Houston is coming off a franchise-worst 55-107 record which preceded their move from the National League into the American League for the 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>Bothered by wrist and hand injuries, Lowrie hit just .244 with 16 home runs, 18 doubles and 42 RBI in 97 games last year.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez struggled to a 2-10 record with a 5.37 earned run average in 70 1\/3 innings over 71 appearances in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Carter, a right-handed hitter, batted .239 with career highs in homers (16), doubles (12), walks (39) and RBI (39) in 67 games for the AL West champion A&#8217;s last season.<\/p>\n<p>Peacock went 12-9 with a 6.01 ERA in 28 games (25 starts) for Sacramento of the Pacific Coast League.<\/p>\n<p>Stassi, 21, belted 15 homers and drove in 45 in 84 games for Single-A Stockton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX (Sports Network) &#8211; The Houston Astros acquired infielder Chris Carter, pitcher Brad Peacock and catcher Max Stassi from the Oakland Athletics in exchange for shortstop Jed Lowrie and pitcher Fernando Rodriguez on Monday. &#8220;This trade gives us power, pitching and catching,&#8221; Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow said. &#8220;Three valuable commodities that will help [&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":[44,41,43,42,40,39],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-astros","tag-athletics","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","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=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}