{"id":15359,"date":"2023-08-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=15359"},"modified":"2023-08-03T09:51:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T15:51:54","slug":"a-pair-of-aces-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=15359","title":{"rendered":"A Pair Of Aces To Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Rangers, Astros land two Aces in trade deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Ruben Rodriguez&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MLB Trade Deadline is always filled with exciting moments, and for the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros, the deadline certainly brought a few big names as both Texas squads were able to land two veteran pitchers, one being a familiar face. An interesting point to add, both pitchers are former New York Mets and were on the same rotation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Texas Rangers and Houston Astros have been entrenched in a neck and neck battle for first of the AL West. The Rebuilding Rangers have certainly given the defending World Series Champions a run for their money in the AL West Race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rangers picked up Max Scherzer, while the Astros landed Justin Verlander. Verlander and Scherzer both made their way over from New York in their first season for the Mets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both squads made their way from two different Ball clubs, Scherzer from the Dodgers, and Verlander form Houston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scherzer, who will begin with Rangers has a connection as former teammate Jacob DeGrom is one of the key starters for the Rangers. Meanwhile Verlander returns home to Houston after a five year tenure from 2017-2022. Verlander, with the Astros earned two World Series titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rangers, Astros land two Aces in trade deadline By Ruben Rodriguez&nbsp; The MLB Trade Deadline is always filled with exciting moments, and for the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros, the deadline certainly brought a few big names as both Texas squads were able to land two veteran pitchers, one being a familiar face. An interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[67,87],"class_list":["post-15359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15361,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15359\/revisions\/15361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}