{"id":2358,"date":"2010-12-21T19:28:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T01:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2010-12-21T19:32:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T01:32:45","slug":"former-pbr-player-of-the-year-jake-odorizzi-dealt-to-royals-prep-baseball-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2358","title":{"rendered":"Former PBR Player of the Year Jake Odorizzi dealt to Royals (Prep Baseball Report)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/JakeOdorizziTimberRattlers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2359\" title=\"JakeOdorizziTimberRattlers\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/JakeOdorizziTimberRattlers-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/JakeOdorizziTimberRattlers-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/JakeOdorizziTimberRattlers.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On  Sunday, the baseball world woke up to the news that the Kansas City  Royals had traded their 2009 A.L. Cy Young winner, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/greinza01.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\">Zack  Greinke<\/a><\/strong>, to the  Milwaukee Brewers.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t a secret that the Royals were asking for the farm (literally) in return for the coveted right-hander.\u00a0 It  was simply a matter of which organization had both the minor league  depth and corresponding \u201call-in\u201d mentality to justify parting with a  substantial portion of its future.\u00a0 Well, that team happened to be the Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although  the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/greinza01.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\">Zack  Greinke<\/a><\/strong> trade is something that is sure to interest any fan of  the game, the deal holds a special significance for the fans and  followers of Illinois high school baseball. The Brew Crew parted ways  with some of their best, young talent, including shortstop Alcides  Escobar, outfielder <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cainlo01.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\">Lorenzo  Cain<\/a><\/strong>, flame thrower <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jeffrje01.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\">Jeremy  Jeffress<\/a><\/strong> and,  most notably, the 2008 Prep Baseball Report Player of the Year, Jake  Odorizzi.\u00a0 And as more details have been released  regarding the negotiations of this blockbuster deal, we have come to  learn that Odorizzi seems to have been the player that made this trade  happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prepbaseballreport.com\/Blogs\/TheGoldenSombrero\/tabid\/1135\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/1586\/Former-PBR-Player-of-Year-Jake-Odorizzi-gets-dealt-to-Royals.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading &#8216;Former PBR Player of the Year Jake Odorizzi deal to Royals (Prep Baseball Report)&#8217; &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, the baseball world woke up to the news that the Kansas City Royals had traded their 2009 A.L. Cy Young winner, Zack Greinke, to the Milwaukee Brewers.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t a secret that the Royals were asking for the farm (literally) in return for the coveted right-hander.\u00a0 It was simply a matter of which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,8,6,16,9,11,13,10,14],"tags":[1559,1531,1534,1533,302,1532,193,1560,171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}