{"id":586,"date":"2012-11-26T11:37:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T16:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=586"},"modified":"2012-11-26T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T16:37:44","slug":"twins-sign-jeff-clement-to-minor-league-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/11\/26\/twins-sign-jeff-clement-to-minor-league-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins sign Jeff Clement to minor league contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www1.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Milwaukee+Brewers+v+Pittsburgh+Pirates+mbnDzYtG7p9l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Twins signed Jeff Clement to a minor league contract. Clement used to be a top level catching prospect for the Seattle Mariners but never produced at the major league level.<\/p>\n<p>Clement spent last season at Triple-A with Pittsburgh. He finished his season there with a .276\/.340\/.486 line with 16 homers and 57 RBI. During 23 games at the big league level Clement hit just .136 and produced no extra base hits.<\/p>\n<p>While Clement appeared to have a good season at Triple-A he will only be another name on the depth chart in Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Twins signed Jeff Clement to a minor league contract. Clement used to be a top level catching prospect for the Seattle Mariners but never produced at the major league level. Clement spent last season at Triple-A with Pittsburgh. He finished his season there with a .276\/.340\/.486 line with 16 homers and 57 RBI. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}