{"id":22994,"date":"2019-07-28T21:35:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T01:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/?p=22994"},"modified":"2019-07-28T21:35:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T01:35:42","slug":"royals-prospects-jake-diekman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2019\/07\/28\/royals-prospects-jake-diekman\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals Acquire Two Prospects for Jake Diekman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Royals Acquire Two Prospects for Jake Diekman<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/mlb-teams\/kansas-city-royals\/\" target=\"_self\">Kansas City Royals<\/a>\u00a0acquired two prospects from the <a href=\"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/mlb-teams\/oakland-athletics\/\" target=\"_self\">Oakland Athletics<\/a>\u00a0in exchange for pitcher <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/diekmja01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Diekman<\/a><\/strong>. The newest Royals are outfielder <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=blanco000dai&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dairon Blanco<\/a><\/strong> and pitcher <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=aquino000ism&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ismael Aquino<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0In a corresponding move, pitcher\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/z\/zimmeky01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Zimmer<\/a><\/strong> has been recalled from Triple-A Omaha. The Royals are in sell mode, and the expectations are that they will make more trades.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have traded LHP Jake Diekman to the Athletics for OF Dairon Blanco and RHP Ismael Aquino. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Royals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Royals\/status\/1155199661151576065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Dairon Blanco<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Dairon Blanco was born in Camaguey, Cuba and is a speedy outfielder that bats from the right side. The Athletics signed Blanco in April of 2008. He is 26 years old and was playing with the Double-A Midland Rockhounds as part of the Athletics organization.<\/p>\n<p>Blanco was batting .276 with seven home runs, 44 RBI, and twelve triples in 301 at-bats. Speed is his game, and Blanco has swiped 27 bases out of 34 attempts.\u00a0In 2018, he was voted as one of the top stars in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/california\/news\/oakland-as-dairon-blanco-leads-north-to-win-in-california-league-all-star-game\/c-282030640\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California League All-Star Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining the Athletics, Blanco played for the Cuban National team. Blanco batted .304 with seven HR and 79 RBI. He also stole 52 bases and was caught 13 times. Blanco is also a two-time minor league All-Star.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals have assigned Blanco to the Northwest Arkansas Naturals.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Ismael Aquino<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Ismael Aquino is a right-handed pitcher who was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. On December 12th, 2016 the Athletics signed Aquino as a free agent.\u00a0The twenty-year-old was playing in the Arizona League with the Athletics Green team. His record was 1-1 with a 4.58 ERA. Primarily used as a relief pitcher Aquino had 20 strikeouts in 17 and two-thirds innings pitched.<\/p>\n<p>Aquino had his best success pitching in the Dominican Summer League, going 2-1 with a 3.13 ERA appearing in 13 games and starting ten of them. In three seasons with the Athletics minor leagues, Aquino has a 5-4 record with a 4.03 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals have sent Aquino to the AZL Royals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Royals<\/a> organization, Ismael and Dairon! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UxYkYY2v7W\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/UxYkYY2v7W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Royals\/status\/1155212547114590208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"RYOUO7E0RrN1Up1RQwcmGw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1162259768\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'RYOUO7E0RrN1Up1RQwcmGw',sig:'XHz__wuw-R5eQ7Qs1dLgfoc0H0_jMZJO_tGS48GLRIk=',w:'594px',h:'440px',items:'1162259768',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royals Acquire Two Prospects for Jake Diekman The Kansas City Royals\u00a0acquired two prospects from the Oakland Athletics\u00a0in exchange for pitcher Jake Diekman. The newest Royals are outfielder Dairon Blanco and pitcher Ismael Aquino.\u00a0In a corresponding move, pitcher\u00a0Kyle Zimmer has been recalled from Triple-A Omaha. The Royals are in sell mode, and the expectations are that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":23092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1071],"tags":[2925,2926,2087,51],"class_list":["post-22994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royals","category-mlb","tag-dairon-blanco","tag-ismael-aquino","tag-jake-diekman","tag-kansas-city-royals"],"modified_by":"Evan Thompson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}