{"id":5358,"date":"2013-11-30T23:16:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T04:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5358"},"modified":"2013-11-30T23:16:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T04:16:27","slug":"twins-sign-phil-hughes-to-a-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/11\/30\/twins-sign-phil-hughes-to-a-three-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins sign Phil Hughes to three-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5343\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5343\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/philhughes.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/philhughes.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/philhughes-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Minnesota Twins have signed free agent pitcher Phil Hughes to a three-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes, 27, becomes the second free agent pitcher that the Twins have added this offseason joining Ricky Nolasco. Said to be seeking a three-year deal that is exactly what Hughes got in his new deal with the Twins.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Hughes was 4-14 with a 5.19 ERA but the Twins focused on the success that the right hander\u00a0had from 2009-2012 when he was 47-29 with a 4.24 ERA and a 1.27 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>Moving from Yankee Stadium to Target Field should help Hughes numbers a bit. He&#8217;s a prime candidate for a bounce back season.\u00a0The deal between Hughes and the Twins is for three-years and $24 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Twins have signed free agent pitcher Phil Hughes to a three-year deal. Hughes, 27, becomes the second free agent pitcher that the Twins have added this offseason joining Ricky Nolasco. Said to be seeking a three-year deal that is exactly what Hughes got in his new deal with the Twins. Last season Hughes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,134,501,46],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-minnesota-twins","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-phil-hughes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358","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=5358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5358"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}