{"id":20747,"date":"2014-07-11T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-acquire-lefty-francis-from-as\/"},"modified":"2014-07-11T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T19:30:08","slug":"yankees-acquire-lefty-francis-from-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-acquire-lefty-francis-from-as\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees acquire lefty Francis from A&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Yankees acquired left-handed pitcher Jeff Francis in a trade with the Oakland Athletics on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal sent Francis and cash considerations to New York for a player to be named later.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees needed to add depth to their rotation with ace Masahiro Tanaka out indefinitely. Tanaka has a partial tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow and with successful rehab could return in approximately six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Francis, a first-round draft pick by the Colorado Rockies in 2002, was recently designated for assignment by the Athletics after recording a 6.08 ERA in nine relief appearances over 13 1\/3 innings. The veteran has a 5.89 ERA in 10 games with Oakland and the Cincinnati Reds this season.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, the 33-year-old has a record of 70-80 with a 4.95 ERA and 847 strikeouts in 238 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees also designated right-hander Jim Miller for assignment and recalled right-hander Matt Daley from Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Yankees acquired left-handed pitcher Jeff Francis in a trade with the Oakland Athletics on Friday. The deal sent Francis and cash considerations to New York for a player to be named later. The Yankees needed to add depth to their rotation with ace Masahiro Tanaka out indefinitely. Tanaka [&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":[41,59,58,40,39,60],"class_list":["post-20747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-athletics","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20747","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=20747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20750,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20747\/revisions\/20750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}