{"id":795,"date":"2012-12-11T21:38:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T02:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=795"},"modified":"2012-12-11T21:38:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T02:38:20","slug":"scott-elarton-signs-minor-league-deal-with-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/11\/scott-elarton-signs-minor-league-deal-with-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Elarton signs minor league deal with Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-796\" title=\"scottelarton\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/scottelarton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/scottelarton.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/scottelarton-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scott Elarton has signed a minor league deal with the Minnesota Twins. While Elarton is a veteran and the Twins have rotation spots to fill, Elarton, 36, will serve primarily as organizational depth.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Elarton pitched at the Triple-A level for the Phillies where he posted a 5.26 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Elarton pitched in the majors was 2008 when he pitched eight games in relief for the Cleveland Indians.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing in parts of ten seasons, Elarton has a career 56-63 record with a 5.29 ERA and a 1.43 WHIP. Elarton&#8217;s best season came in 2000 when he won 17 games for the Houston Astros despite a 4.81 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Recently the Twins <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/06\/phillies-acquire-ben-revere-from-twins-for-vance-worley-and-minor-leaguer\/\">traded<\/a> Denard Span to Philadelphia for Vance Worley. Scott Diamond and Kyle Gibson will join him in the rotation. Minnesota has attempted to bring back Francisco Liriano on a one year deal but those talks have cooled in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Blackburn, Cole De Vries, Samuel Deduno among others could find their way into the Twins rotation this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Elarton has signed a minor league deal with the Minnesota Twins. While Elarton is a veteran and the Twins have rotation spots to fill, Elarton, 36, will serve primarily as organizational depth. Last season Elarton pitched at the Triple-A level for the Phillies where he posted a 5.26 ERA. The last time Elarton pitched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[134,133],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-minnesota-twins","9":"tag-scott-elarton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","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=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}