{"id":2110,"date":"2013-07-08T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nats-pick-up-hairston-from-cubs\/"},"modified":"2013-07-08T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T11:12:00","slug":"nats-pick-up-hairston-from-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nats-pick-up-hairston-from-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Nats pick up Hairston from Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (Sports Network) &#8211; The Washington Nationals have acquired outfielder Scott Hairston from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for minor league pitcher Ivan Pineyro.<\/p>\n<p>Hairston signed a two-year deal with the Cubs in February, reportedly worth $5 million. He was batting just .172 with eight homers and 19 RBI in 52 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old veteran hit 20 homers in 377 at-bats last year for the Mets and will give the Nats a right-handed power bat off the bench. He has 103 career homers and a .244 average in 829 games with Arizona, San Diego, Oakland, the Mets and the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Pineyro, a 21-year-old right-hander, has combined for a record of 6-3 with a 3.24 ERA in 15 starts between Single-A Hagerstown and Potomac this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (Sports Network) &#8211; The Washington Nationals have acquired outfielder Scott Hairston from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for minor league pitcher Ivan Pineyro. Hairston signed a two-year deal with the Cubs in February, reportedly worth $5 million. He was batting just .172 with eight homers and 19 RBI in 52 games this season. [&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":[30,207,208,193,95,192],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cubs","tag-nationals","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","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=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}