{"id":6526,"date":"2014-02-25T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2014-02-25T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T21:12:00","slug":"johan-santana-tops-out-at-81-mph-during-throwing-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/25\/johan-santana-tops-out-at-81-mph-during-throwing-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Johan Santana tops out at 81 mph during throwing session"},"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 may be encouraged by his progress, but the velocity he displayed on Tuesday reminded major league teams that the veteran left-hander still has a long way to go before he is ready to contribute.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Santana is still rebuilding arm strength after his second shoulder capsule surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Santana topped out at 81 mph on Tuesday. Most of his pitches were in the 77-78 mph range according to George King of the <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/02\/25\/santana-barely-cracks-80-mph-in-workout-with-yankees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets declined Santana&#8217;s option for this season paying him a $5.5 million buyout instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johan Santana may be encouraged by his progress, but the velocity he displayed on Tuesday reminded major league teams that the veteran left-hander still has a long way to go before he is ready to contribute. The 34-year-old Santana is still rebuilding arm strength after his second shoulder capsule surgery. Santana topped out at 81 [&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-6526","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\/6526","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=6526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/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=6526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}