{"id":2535,"date":"2011-01-11T10:45:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T16:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2011-01-11T10:48:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T16:48:22","slug":"st-louis-jacob-turner-could-reach-big-leagues-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2535","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis&#8217; Jacob Turner could reach big leagues in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jacob-turner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2536\" title=\"jacob-turner\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jacob-turner-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jacob-turner-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jacob-turner.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At  this year\u2019s Winter Meetings, the Detroit Tigers struggled to complete a  blockbuster trade as they had the previous two seasons.\u00a0 On a team rich  with both young and veteran big-league-ready talent, the first player  that every team inquired about was the their prized prospect, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/minors\/player.cgi?id=turner002jac\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jacob  Turner<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 In the end, the Tigers were unwilling to hear offers for the  19-year old right-hander, and were forced to pass on several potential  trade opportunities.\u00a0 It seemed that there was nothing offered that  could match Turner\u2019s potential impact on both the Tigers\u2019 rotation, as  well as the rest of baseball.<\/p>\n<p>After  compiling a 20-4 career record and 187 strikeouts for Westminster  Christian Academy in St. Louis, Turner was widely considered to be one  of the best right-handed pitchers in the 2009 draft class.\u00a0 Although he  had previously committed to play for North Carolina, the Tigers drafted  the 6-foot-5, 210-pound Turner in the first-round with the 9<sup>th<\/sup> overall selection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prepbaseballreport.com\/News\/tabid\/1042\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/1606\/St-Louis-Jacob-Turner-could-reach-big-leagues-in-2011.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading &#8216;St. Louis&#8217; Jacob Turner could reach big leagues in 2011&#8242; &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this year\u2019s Winter Meetings, the Detroit Tigers struggled to complete a blockbuster trade as they had the previous two seasons.\u00a0 On a team rich with both young and veteran big-league-ready talent, the first player that every team inquired about was the their prized prospect, Jacob Turner.\u00a0 In the end, the Tigers were unwilling to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,8,6,16,9,13,776,10,14],"tags":[1663,1666,638,1660,1664,1662,746,179,1665,1661],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535"}],"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=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}