{"id":3605,"date":"2013-07-15T18:55:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T22:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3605"},"modified":"2013-07-15T18:57:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T22:57:14","slug":"miguel-alfredo-gonzalez-is-free-to-sign-with-any-mlb-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/15\/miguel-alfredo-gonzalez-is-free-to-sign-with-any-mlb-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez is free to sign with any MLB team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3606\" alt=\"miguel\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/miguel.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/miguel.jpg 640w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/miguel-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez has been cleared by the U.S. Treasury Department and is free to sign a contract with any Major League Baseball team. The 26-year0-old Cuban is right handed and had roughly 45 scouts show up to a recent throwing session.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Cuba&amp;src=hash\">#Cuba<\/a> RHP Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez has been cleared by US govt. (OFAC) &amp; is free to sign with MLB club. Deal could happen this week or next.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jesse Sanchez (@JesseSanchezMLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JesseSanchezMLB\/statuses\/356900079493320704\">July 15, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The figures on what it would take to sign Gonzalez are all over the place, as high $60 million over five years.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez throws comfortably in the 90-94 mph range but his fastball can reach 96 mph when needed.<\/p>\n<p>With their seemingly endless supply of money the Dodgers are currently seen as the favorites to sign Gonzalez. The Dodgers snatched up Yasiel Puig for seven years and $42 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez has been cleared by the U.S. Treasury Department and is free to sign a contract with any Major League Baseball team. The 26-year0-old Cuban is right handed and had roughly 45 scouts show up to a recent throwing session. #Cuba RHP Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez has been cleared by US govt. (OFAC) &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[405],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-3605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-miguel-alfredo-gonzalez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605","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=3605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3605"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}