{"id":6290,"date":"2014-02-07T20:03:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T01:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6290"},"modified":"2014-02-07T20:03:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T01:03:03","slug":"johan-santana-begins-throwing-off-mound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/07\/johan-santana-begins-throwing-off-mound\/","title":{"rendered":"Johan Santana begins throwing off mound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5549\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/johanasantana.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5549\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/johanasantana.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/johanasantana-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nJohan Santana has begun throwing off a mound as he works his way back from a re=tar of his shoulder capsule.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear when the 34-year-old left hander could be ready to pitch at any level. The belief had been that Santana was not an option for any team until after the All-Star break. If he&#8217;s already throwing off a mound his return would seem to be closer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Just want to let you guys know that I started throwing off the mound this week, and I feel great!!! One step closer!!! Believe it!!!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; El Gocho believe it! (@johansantana) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johansantana\/statuses\/431919235942858753\">February 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thus far the Minnesota Twins have been linked the most to Santana with the New York Yankees also showing interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johan Santana has begun throwing off a mound as he works his way back from a re=tar of his shoulder capsule. It&#8217;s unclear when the 34-year-old left hander could be ready to pitch at any level. The belief had been that Santana was not an option for any team until after the All-Star break. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[553,501,76],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-johan-santana","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-mets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290","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=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}