{"id":4035,"date":"2013-08-23T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nationals-trade-kurt-suzuki-back-to-oakland\/"},"modified":"2013-08-23T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T12:04:00","slug":"nationals-trade-kurt-suzuki-back-to-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nationals-trade-kurt-suzuki-back-to-oakland\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals trade Kurt Suzuki back to Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Oakland Athletics made a trade with the Washington Nationals on Friday to bring their former catcher, Kurt Suzuki, back to the team.<\/p>\n<p>The A&#8217;s also got cash considerations from the Nationals in exchange for minor league pitcher Dakota Bacus.<\/p>\n<p>Suzuki was batting .222 with three home runs and 25 RBI in 79 games with Washington this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Suzuki had a .254 batting average with 57 home runs and 302 RBI in 703 games over six seasons with the Athletics before he was traded to the Nationals on Aug. 3, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Originally selected by the A&#8217;s in the second round of the 2004 First-Year Player Draft, Suzuki reached double figures in home runs in three consecutive seasons from 2009-11 and led Oakland in RBI in 2009 (88) and 2010 (71). His 669 games caught are second most in Oakland history to Terry Steinbach (1,050).<\/p>\n<p>Bacus was 9-5 with a 3.56 ERA in 26 games (16 starts) with Single-A Beloit this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Oakland Athletics made a trade with the Washington Nationals on Friday to bring their former catcher, Kurt Suzuki, back to the team. The A&#8217;s also got cash considerations from the Nationals in exchange for minor league pitcher Dakota Bacus. Suzuki was batting .222 with three home runs and 25 [&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":[41,193,40,39,95,192],"class_list":["post-4035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-athletics","tag-nationals","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035","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=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}