{"id":19936,"date":"2017-06-19T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T23:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=19936"},"modified":"2017-06-18T20:24:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T19:24:01","slug":"mlb-this-week-quintanas-latest-audition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=19936","title":{"rendered":"MLB This Week: Quintana&#8217;s latest audition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/CovMLBUK2014.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17885\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/CovMLBUK2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>With the amateur draft behind us, the trade deadline rumours are starting to begin in earnest and &#8211; as with every year &#8211; starting pitchers are on the minds of many of the teams that fancy themselves as play-off contenders.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Quintana surprisingly was still on the White Sox&#8217;s roster when Opening Day came around after an off-season of trade rumours.<\/p>\n<p>He hasn&#8217;t done much to help his team get a prospect haul for him though as his 2017 season so far has been underwhelming to say the least. He&#8217;s scheduled to pitch against the Twins in an early game on Thursday and so it&#8217;s a convenient time for us to see if his performances have been better than his results would suggest.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one of ten games beginning before midnight UK time this working week. Other starting pitchers currently scheduled to take the mound include Max Scherzer, Marcus Stroman, Ivan Nova and Carlos Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST.<\/p>\n<h2>Monday 19 June<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h2>Tuesday 20 June<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h2>Wednesday 21 June<\/h2>\n<p>17:10 Reds at Rays (Adleman, Ramirez) <strong>*MLB.com Free Game<\/strong><br \/>\n17:10 Nationals at Marlins (Scherzer, Strailly)<br \/>\n19:15 Red Sox at Royals (Pomeranz, Kennedy) <strong>*BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n19:20 Padres at Cubs (Diaz, Butler)<\/p>\n<h2>Thursday 22 June<\/h2>\n<p>18:05 Cardinals at Phillies (Martinez, Nola)<br \/>\n18:10 White Sox at Twins (Quintana, Santiago)<br \/>\n19:05 Blue Jays at Rangers (Stroman, Perez)<br \/>\n19:10 Pirates at Brewers (Nova, Anderson)<br \/>\n20:10 D-backs at Rockies (Corbin, Senzatela) <strong>*BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n20:35 Astros at Athletics (Fiers, Hahn)<\/p>\n<h2>Friday 23 June<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<p><i>All of these games are available to watch or listen to live via an <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=19543\"><i>MLB.TV subscription<\/i><\/a><i>. TV coverage of MLB in the UK comes courtesy of the BT Sport channels and these are highlighted above, as are any games that are available to view online for free via MLB.com. The above list of games just shows those starting before midnight UK time. The full schedule of MLB games can be found on <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/schedule\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>MLB.com<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the amateur draft behind us, the trade deadline rumours are starting to begin in earnest and &#8211; as with every year &#8211; starting pitchers are on the minds of many of the teams that fancy themselves as play-off contenders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[82,532,535,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-19936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","category-mlb-2","tag-bst-guide","tag-bt-sport","tag-espn","tag-gamedayaudio","tag-mlb-2","tag-mlb-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19939,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19936\/revisions\/19939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}