{"id":1383,"date":"2017-12-09T13:17:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/2017\/12\/09\/as-winter-wish-came-true-with-parker-trade\/"},"modified":"2017-12-09T13:17:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:17:23","slug":"as-winter-wish-came-true-with-parker-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/as-winter-wish-came-true-with-parker-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;s winter wish came true with Parker trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking a left-handed complement to the right-handed power duo of Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco, A&#8217;s general manager Sandy Alderson swung a deal for Dave Parker during the Winter Meetings in Dallas, sending pitchers Jose Rijo and Tim Birtsas to the Reds. &#8220;The Cobra&#8221; became Oakland&#8217;s primary DH, compiling 22 homers and 97 RBIs and offering veteran leadership that proved vital to the club&#8217;s consecutive World Series appearances.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article\/oak\/on-dec-8-1987-as-traded-for-dave-parker?ymd=20171208&#038;content_id=263122550&#038;vkey=news_oak\">OAK Homepage News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking a left-handed complement to the right-handed power duo of Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco, A&#8217;s general manager Sandy Alderson swung a deal for Dave Parker during the Winter Meetings in Dallas, sending pitchers Jose Rijo and Tim Birtsas to the Reds. &#8220;The Cobra&#8221; became Oakland&#8217;s primary DH, compiling 22 homers and 97 RBIs and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[2297,164,484,2298,932,2296],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oakland-athletics","tag-came","tag-parker","tag-trade","tag-true","tag-winter","tag-wish"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}