{"id":2561,"date":"2016-12-11T02:57:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T07:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2016-12-11T23:43:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T04:43:39","slug":"angeles-acquire-danny-espinosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2016\/12\/11\/angeles-acquire-danny-espinosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Angels Acquire Danny Espinosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After acquiring <b><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?results=eatonad02,eatonad01&amp;search=Adam+Eaton&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-lastwordonbaseball.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Eaton<\/a><\/strong><\/b> from the <b>Chicago White Sox<\/b>, it appeared as if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/espinda01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Danny\u00a0Espinosa<\/b><\/a>&#8216;s playing days in the nation&#8217;s capital had come to an end, and now it&#8217;s official.<\/p>\n<p>According to <b>Josh Norris<\/b>, the <strong>Washington<\/strong> <b>Nationals<\/b> have traded Espinosa to the <b>Los Angeles Angels<\/b>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Source: Danny Espinosa has been traded from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nationals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Nationals<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Angels?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Angels<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josh Norris \ud83d\udc3b (@jnorris427) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnorris427\/status\/807770531537842177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Los Angeles Angels Acquire Danny Espinosa<\/h2>\n<p>In return the Nationals will receive minor league relievers <b><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?results=adamsau01,adams-002aus&amp;search=Austin+Adams&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-lastwordonbaseball.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Austin Adams<\/a><\/strong> <\/b>and <b><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.cgi?id=mcgowi000kyl&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-lastwordonbaseball.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle McGowin<\/a><\/strong><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Within the last few hours the Nationals began their yearly <b>Winterfest<\/b>, where the players and fans interact with one another; however, Espinosa was absent from their festivities due to frustration in the team&#8217;s recent move for Eaton.<\/p>\n<p>With Eaton aboard, the Nationals were bound to find a suitor for Espinosa, and his recent trade request made a deal plausible for both sides; however, it&#8217;s unknown what player the Angels will be\u00a0getting.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Espinosa hit just .209, but drove in over 70 runs, and hit 24 home runs. Also, just a few weeks before the <b>All Star\u00a0break<\/b>, Espinosa went on a tear offensively, driving in seven runs in a single game, but also putting on a power display at the plate. After that, he tailed off, and went into a slump for most of the year. His fit on the Angels will also be something to monitor, as his role seems a bit unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout most of his career, Espinosa has been second baseman and, more recently, a shortstop, and he&#8217;s among the elite fielding shortstops in baseball. But his average has always been a red flag. He&#8217;s posted a .226 batting average over the course of his career. It&#8217;s also a bit odd that just a year ago, the Angels made a blockbuster move for <b>Braves<\/b> shortstop <b><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/simmoan01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-lastwordonbaseball.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrelton Simmons<\/a><\/strong><\/b>, and now the team is looking at a deal for another shortstop. It appears their trust in Simmons has dissipated a bit; regardless, it will be interesting to see how he fares in his home come.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/614451758\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/614451758?et=9ycbkNRtTIhVmVETkQk1vA&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=uuDMMm0F-6C7q6bJHajgsDcQQZeOcW04Uw0sTELpL0k=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After acquiring Adam Eaton from the Chicago White Sox, it appeared as if Danny\u00a0Espinosa&#8216;s playing days in the nation&#8217;s capital had come to an end, and now it&#8217;s official. According to Josh Norris, the Washington Nationals have traded Espinosa to the Los Angeles Angels. Source: Danny Espinosa has been traded from the #Nationals to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":2568,"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":[16,35,19],"tags":[68,485,69,38],"class_list":["post-2561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angels","category-news","category-nationals","tag-baseball","tag-danny-espinosa","tag-mlb","tag-washington-nationals"],"modified_by":"Josh Greenberg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","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\/1631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}