{"id":10502,"date":"2015-12-14T17:17:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T22:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10502"},"modified":"2015-12-14T17:21:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T22:21:02","slug":"giants-add-johnny-cueto-to-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/12\/14\/giants-add-johnny-cueto-to-rotation\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants add Johnny Cueto to rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10503\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/johnnycueto.jpg\" alt=\"johnnycueto\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/johnnycueto.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/12\/johnnycueto-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The top end of the San Francisco Giants rotation got stronger on Monday when the team signed Johnny Cueto to a six year deal.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN&#8217;s Jerry Crasnick, the deal is worth a total of $130 million and includes an opt-out clause for Cueto after the 2017 season. The Giants also have an option for a seventh year of Cueto.<\/p>\n<p>Over his eight year career Cueto owns a 96-70 record to go with a 3.30 ERA. As important he has a 2.87 ERA and a 1.12 WHIP dating back to the start of the 2010 season. \u00a0In his lone World Series start he showcased himself well tossing a complete game two hitter against the New York Mets while allowing just a lone run.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Including Johnny Cueto&#39;s $130M deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SFGiants?src=hash\">#SFGiants<\/a>, MLB teams have now spent about $890M on starting pitching this winter.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jcrasnick\/status\/676518022392258560\">December 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nWith Cueto and Jeff\u00a0Samardzija joining the Giants who already had Madison Bumgardner the NL\u00a0West is going to be harder to score runs than last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top end of the San Francisco Giants rotation got stronger on Monday when the team signed Johnny Cueto to a six year deal. According to ESPN&#8217;s Jerry Crasnick, the deal is worth a total of $130 million and includes an opt-out clause for Cueto after the 2017 season. The Giants also have an option [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,918,137,501,139],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-johnny-cueto","10":"tag-kansas-city-royals","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-san-francisco-giants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502","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=10502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10505,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502\/revisions\/10505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10502"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}