{"id":11837,"date":"2019-12-06T09:24:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11837"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:24:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:24:14","slug":"twins-ink-alex-avila-on-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2019\/12\/06\/twins-ink-alex-avila-on-one-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins ink Alex Avila on one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11838\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/alexavila.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/alexavila.jpg 534w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/alexavila-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/alexavila-80x60.jpg 80w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/alexavila-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Friday Alex Avila became the latest catcher to sign a deal for the 2020 season.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan, Avila will make $4.25 million as part of a one-year deal he signed with the Twins.<\/p>\n<p>Set to turn 33 in January, Avila had just a .207\/.353\/.421 line last season while adding nine home runs in 201 trips to the plate as a member of the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Catcher Alex Avila and the Minnesota Twins are in agreement on a one-year, $4.25 million deal, sources tell ESPN. The catching market continues to move quickly, and the veteran left-handed hitter will join the Bomba Squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1202941948857868294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The recent addition of Stephen Vogt by the Diamondbacks closed the door on any chance of a return to Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday Alex Avila became the latest catcher to sign a deal for the 2020 season. According to ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan, Avila will make $4.25 million as part of a one-year deal he signed with the Twins. Set to turn 33 in January, Avila had just a .207\/.353\/.421 line last season while adding nine home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[1162,125,503,134,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alex-avila","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-minnesota-twins","12":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11837","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=11837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11839,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11837\/revisions\/11839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11837"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}