{"id":6699,"date":"2014-03-12T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6699"},"modified":"2014-03-12T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T15:37:00","slug":"braves-sign-ervin-santana-kris-medlen-preparing-for-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/12\/braves-sign-ervin-santana-kris-medlen-preparing-for-tommy-john-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves sign Ervin Santana, Kris Medlen preparing for Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Ervin Santana saga is over. On Wednesday the right hander agreed to a one-year deal with the Atlanta Braves worth $14.1 million.<\/p>\n

Santana, 31, had reportedly been seeking a contract of $100 million when free agency began but teams had been leery of signing him since he was tied to draft pick compensation.<\/p>\n

A market began to develop for Santana in recent days and the Braves immediately became interested in him after both Kris Medlen and Brandon Beachy left spring starts early.<\/p>\n

Last season Santana played for the Kansas City Royals posting a 3.24 ERA, 1.14 WHIP and 161\/51 \/BB ratio across 211 innings.<\/p>\n

A choked-up Medlen said of TJ likehood, “Nothing\u2019s official, but I think I know and just go from there.”<\/p>\n

\u2014 David O’Brien (@ajcbraves) March 12, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Braves plan to have Santana throw a bullpen session and some live batting practice before placing him on the field for the first time. He should be ready to go by mid-April.<\/p>\n

Medlen: Preparing for Tommy John surgery<\/h3>\n

As Satana joins the Braves, Kris Medlen is exiting.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Medlen told reporters that while nothing is official he is preparing himself to undergo a second Tommy John surgery.\u00a0Medlen left his start on Sunday with a forearm strain.<\/p>\n

It is another tough break for Medlen who missed almost the entire 2011 season undergoing his first Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n

“His MRI showed injury to the ligament, but we don’t yet know the extent,” general manager Frank Wren said in a statement on Tuesday. “A diagnosis would be premature at this point. He will undergo further tests until we seek a second opinion. An MRI can sometimes be inconclusive when a player has had a previous Tommy John surgery.”<\/p>\n

Medlen\u00a0was 15-12 with a 3.11 ERA last year and was to take the ball on Opening Day.<\/p>\n

The status of Brandon Beachy, who missed almost all of 2013, is still in question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ervin Santana saga is over. On Wednesday the right hander agreed to a one-year deal with the Atlanta Braves worth $14.1 million. Santana, 31, had reportedly been seeking a contract of $100 million when free agency began but teams had been leery of signing him since he was tied to draft pick compensation. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,68,503,10,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-ervin-santana","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-kris-medlen","12":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699","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=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6701,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions\/6701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}