{"id":21530,"date":"2014-07-31T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cardinals-take-lackey-from-red-sox\/"},"modified":"2014-07-31T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T14:08:00","slug":"cardinals-take-lackey-from-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cardinals-take-lackey-from-red-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals take Lackey from Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The St. Louis Cardinals acquired veteran starter John Lackey, pitching prospect Corey Littrell and cash considerations from the Boston Red Sox in exchange for two players ahead of Thursday&#8217;s non-waiver trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Heading from St. Louis to Boston are outfielder\/first baseman Allen Craig and pitcher Joe Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>The Cards are getting a two-time World Series winner (Angels in 2002, Red Sox in 2013) in Lackey, who has gone 11-7 with a 3.60 earned run average over 21 starts for the AL East cellar dwellers.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old right-hander accumulated 47 wins with Boston, and carries a career mark of 149-114 with a 4.02 ERA, 17 complete games and eight shutouts over 345 games &#8212; all but one of those starts &#8212; since breaking into the majors 12 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Craig, 30, is a veteran of five major league seasons, all with St. Louis. In 2014, he has batted .237 with seven home runs, 17 doubles and 44 RBI over 97 contests.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly is in the thick of his third MLB campaign. He was 10-5 with a 2.69 ERA over 37 games (15 starts) last season, and has pitched to a 2-2 record and 4.37 ERA in just seven starts this year. Kelly did not take the mound from April 16 to July 11 due to a bothersome hamstring injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The St. Louis Cardinals acquired veteran starter John Lackey, pitching prospect Corey Littrell and cash considerations from the Boston Red Sox in exchange for two players ahead of Thursday&#8217;s non-waiver trade deadline. Heading from St. Louis to Boston are outfielder\/first baseman Allen Craig and pitcher Joe Kelly. The Cards are [&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":[177,188,99,189,98,97],"class_list":["post-21530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-cardinals","tag-red-sox","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21530","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=21530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}