{"id":377,"date":"2013-03-20T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pirates-acquire-if-mcdonald-from-arizona\/"},"modified":"2013-03-20T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T14:22:00","slug":"pirates-acquire-if-mcdonald-from-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pirates-acquire-if-mcdonald-from-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates acquire IF McDonald from Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Buena Vista, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Pirates acquired veteran infielder John McDonald from the Arizona Diamondbacks, the team announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for McDonald, the Diamondbacks will receive a player to be named or cash considerations.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh is in need of an infielder after Chase d&#8217;Arnaud had surgery to repair a partially torn ligament in his left thumb on Monday after he appeared to be making a case to join the Pirates on Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald, 38, batted .249 last season with Arizona and had six homers to go along with 22 RBI over 70 games played. He has stints with Cleveland (1999-2004), Toronto (2005-2011), Detroit (2005) and Arizona for the last two seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Buena Vista, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Pirates acquired veteran infielder John McDonald from the Arizona Diamondbacks, the team announced on Wednesday. In exchange for McDonald, the Diamondbacks will receive a player to be named or cash considerations. Pittsburgh is in need of an infielder after Chase d&#8217;Arnaud had surgery to repair a [&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":[180,143,179],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","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=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}