{"id":485739,"date":"2024-07-28T20:01:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T00:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485739"},"modified":"2024-07-28T20:01:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T00:01:38","slug":"cubs-receive-all-star-paredes-in-exchange-with-rays","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cubs-receive-all-star-paredes-in-exchange-with-rays\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs receive All-Star Paredes in exchange with Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs and Rays swapped 3<sup>rd<\/sup> basemen today, with Christopher Morel heading to Tampa Bay while All-Star Isaac Paredes returns to Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago is also sending 2 prospects &#8211; pitchers Ty Johnson and Hunter Bigge \u2013 to Tampa Bay in the trade.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac will right away step in as Chicago\u2019s starting 3<sup>rd<\/sup> basemen, as the organization has been searching for a player at that position since Kris Bryant left 3 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As our team have revealed, our ambition is to add players that will help us not just in the current campaign, but in the long term,&#8221; Chicago president Jed Hoyer claimed after the deal became official. &#8220;In the past 2 days, we feel we have worked toward that by making deal for those types of controllable players. Acquiring Isaac adds a proven bat to our squad at the moment and for the near future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The All-Star basemen (25) was originally inked by Chicago but never competed for them as he was exchanged to the Tigers 7 years ago in a deadline trade.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Isaac Paredes was an All-Star for the Rays this season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6Hmq8aguxp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6Hmq8aguxp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marquee Sports Network (@WatchMarquee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WatchMarquee\/status\/1817672840646168886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs and Rays swapped 3rd basemen today, with Christopher Morel heading to Tampa Bay while All-Star Isaac Paredes returns to Chicago. Chicago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485740,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17102,17863,18016],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[19159,23210,18665,12402],"acf":{"announce":"Chicago and Tampa Bay swapped third basemen today.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485741,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485739\/revisions\/485741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485739"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485739"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}