{"id":81628,"date":"2024-07-29T13:53:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=81628"},"modified":"2024-07-29T14:15:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T18:15:49","slug":"quinn-priester-red-sox-pirates-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/29\/quinn-priester-red-sox-pirates-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Red Sox Strengthen Pitching Depth with Trade from Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox have acquired right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/priesqu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quinn Priester<\/a> from the Pittsburgh Pirates for infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=yorke-000nic&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Yorke<\/a>, per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jeffpassan\/status\/1817977398157340710?s=46&amp;t=rgryFWhxsXDdw7thFRmMWA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeff Passan of ESPN<\/a>. There is no room for Priester in Boston&#8217;s rotation, but he will supplement its starting pitching depth. The 23-year-old hasn&#8217;t shown much at the major league level, collecting a 6.61 ERA over 81 2\/3 innings. Priester is a former top-100 prospect with a 3.50 ERA and 25.1 percent strikeout rate during his time at the Double- and Triple-A levels.<\/p>\n<p>Yorke was the No. 17 draft pick in 2020. He has a .277\/.359\/.437 slash line in 370 minor league games, reaching Triple-A for the first time this year.<\/p>\n<h2>Red Sox Get Priester from Pirates for Nick Yorke<\/h2>\n<p>Priester, a 2019 first-round draft pick, made his MLB debut last season in Pittsburgh. In ten games (six starts), Priester has a 5.04 ERA with 31 strikeouts and 13 walks in 44 2\/3 innings. In seven starts at Triple-A Indianapolis this season, the right-hander posted a 3.21 ERA with 36 strikeouts in 33 2\/3 innings. Priester is under team control through the 2030 season and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/26\/james-paxton-dodgers-red-sox-trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">continues to add depth<\/a> to the Red Sox pitching system.<\/p>\n<p>In Yorke, he has spent his entire minor league career in the infield. It was widely speculated that the Red Sox would dangle Yorke in a trade. After a promotion to Triple-A Worcester in early July, Yorke is hitting .310 with an .898 OPS in 38 games.<\/p>\n<p><em>More to come.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox have acquired right-hander Quinn Priester from the Pittsburgh Pirates for infielder Nick Yorke, per Jeff Passan of ESPN. There is no room for Priester in Boston&#8217;s rotation, but he will supplement its starting pitching depth. The 23-year-old hasn&#8217;t shown much at the major league level, collecting a 6.61 ERA over 81 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":81629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[4,1071,35,26],"tags":[2694],"class_list":["post-81628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redsox","category-mlb","category-news","category-pirates","tag-quinn-priester"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81628","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\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}