{"id":11466,"date":"2019-02-09T22:41:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T03:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11466"},"modified":"2019-02-09T22:41:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T03:41:24","slug":"lucas-duda-signs-minor-league-deal-with-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2019\/02\/09\/lucas-duda-signs-minor-league-deal-with-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Duda signs minor league deal with Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11467\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/02\/lucasduda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/02\/lucasduda.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/02\/lucasduda-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Lucas Duda has signed a minor league with the Twins which includes an invitation to spring training.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Duda split last season between the Royals and Braves finishing with a .241\/.313\/.418 line with 14 homers in 107 games.<\/p>\n<p>Duda has shown an ability to hit for power in the past hitting 30 homers in 2014 and 2017 and 27 in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins already have Nelson Cruz, C.J. Cron and Tyler Austin on their roster which could hurt Duda&#8217;s chances of making the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas Duda has signed a minor league with the Twins which includes an invitation to spring training. The 33-year-old Duda split last season between the Royals and Braves finishing with a .241\/.313\/.418 line with 14 homers in 107 games. Duda has shown an ability to hit for power in the past hitting 30 homers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[1097,134,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-lucas-duda","9":"tag-minnesota-twins","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466","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=11466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11468,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions\/11468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11466"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}