{"id":11118,"date":"2016-08-01T16:27:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T23:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/pirates-trade-ex-kentwood-high-catcher-mcguire-to-blue-jays\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T15:30:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T22:30:27","slug":"pirates-trade-ex-kentwood-high-catcher-mcguire-to-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/pirates-trade-ex-kentwood-high-catcher-mcguire-to-blue-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates trade ex-Kentwood High catcher McGuire to Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Pittsburgh Pirates traded minor league catcher Reese McGuire, a 2013 Kentwood High graduate, on Monday to the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>McGuire, 21, is expected to play for Toronto&#8217;s Double-A affiliate in New Hampshire, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He has spent this season at Double-A Altoona (Pa.), where he batted .259 with 16 doubles, one home run, 37 RBI and four stolen bases.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>McGuire was part of a deal that sent major league pitcher Francisco Liriano and minor league outfielder Harold Ramirez to Toronto for major league pitcher Drew Hutchison.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Pirates drafted McGuire, who bats left and throws right, with the 14th overall pick in the 2013 draft. He signed out of high school for $2.3 million.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates traded minor league catcher Reese McGuire, a 2013 Kentwood High graduate, on Monday to the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":11119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11118"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}