{"id":10084,"date":"2015-02-26T21:37:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T02:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10084"},"modified":"2015-02-26T21:37:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T02:37:14","slug":"johan-santana-signs-minor-league-deal-with-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/02\/26\/johan-santana-signs-minor-league-deal-with-blue-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"Johan Santana signs minor league deal with Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/johansantana.jpg\" alt=\"johansantana\" width=\"960\" height=\"817\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8063\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/johansantana.jpg 960w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/johansantana-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Toronto Blue Jays have signed pitcher Johan Santana to a minor league contract.<\/p>\n<p>Santana, 35, will have to pitch his way back to the majors after sitting out the last two seasons. His comeback attempt last year was thwarted by a torn Achillies.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran left-hander experienced shoulder soreness during winter ball last month but tests showed no structural damage. He is a longshot to ever have any success at the big league level again but given that its a minor league deal there is nothing to lose here on the Blue Jays part by throwing him a bone. He will enter Spring Training trying to win the final spot in their rotation.<\/p>\n<p>In his career Santana is 139-78 with a 3.21 ERA and a 1.13 WHIP between stops with the Minnesota Twins and New York Mets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays have signed pitcher Johan Santana to a minor league contract. Santana, 35, will have to pitch his way back to the majors after sitting out the last two seasons. His comeback attempt last year was thwarted by a torn Achillies. The veteran left-hander experienced shoulder soreness during winter ball last month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10085,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions\/10085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10084"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}