{"id":3735,"date":"2023-08-03T05:30:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T11:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2023-08-03T05:30:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T11:30:49","slug":"royal-flush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3735","title":{"rendered":"Royal Flush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/35.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/>In some ways that was a more radical teardown than even I anticipated. For a time I was hoping to keep <strong>Justin Verlander<\/strong> in the hopes that he, <strong>Kodai Senga<\/strong> and<strong> Jose Quintana<\/strong> could be the start of a decent rotation for 2024. He got us two promising hitters instead. And how about that <strong>Dominic Leone<\/strong> trade? This was a guy we got off the trash heap in May and he brought back the Angels&#8217; No. 9 prospect.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/30.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/>The problem with all this in-season wheeling and dealing is we&#8217;re left with a club that can&#8217;t beat the Royals. Thanks the the depletions of <strong>Tommy Pham<\/strong> and <strong>Mark Canha<\/strong> we&#8217;re running out palookas like <strong>Rafael Ortega<\/strong> (30) and <strong>Jonathan Arauz<\/strong> (19). We have new dudes in the bullpen I&#8217;ve hardly ever heard of like <strong>Reed Garrett<\/strong> (75) and <strong>Phil Bickford<\/strong> (50).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some ways that was a more radical teardown than even I anticipated. For a time I was hoping to keep Justin Verlander in the hopes that he, Kodai Senga and Jose Quintana could be the start of a decent rotation for 2024. He got us two promising hitters instead. And how about that Dominic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3735\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Royal Flush&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,916,866],"tags":[1094,1107,1076,1075,1080,1006,1106,1108,1104,1084],"class_list":["post-3735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shams","category-that-actually-happened","category-who-is-this-guy","tag-dominic-leone","tag-jonathan-arauz","tag-jose-quintana","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kodai-senga","tag-mark-canha","tag-phil-bickford","tag-rafael-ortega","tag-reed-garrett","tag-tommy-pham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3736,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions\/3736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}