{"id":8067,"date":"2014-06-02T22:04:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T02:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8067"},"modified":"2014-06-02T22:04:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T02:04:42","slug":"orioles-purchase-contract-of-santana-place-him-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/02\/orioles-purchase-contract-of-santana-place-him-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles purchase contract of Santana, place him on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8063\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/johansantana.jpg\" alt=\"johansantana\" width=\"960\" height=\"817\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/johansantana.jpg 960w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/johansantana-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rather than have Johan Santana opt out of his contract the Baltimore Orioles purchased the contract of the left hander on Monday and then placed him on the 15-day disabled list.<\/p>\n<p>Santana, 35, has been slowly working his way back from a second shoulder capsule surgery. He has been pitching in extended spring training and will soon begin a rehab assignment with the Orioles. Now that his contract has been purchased he could become a rotation option at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Johan Santana will pitch one more game in ext. spring. That will likely be Tues or Wed bec <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Orioles&amp;src=hash\">#Orioles<\/a> want to keep on reg schedule.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eduardo A. Encina (@EddieInTheYard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EddieInTheYard\/statuses\/473615407866060800\">June 3, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His rehab took a little bit longer than we had hoped,&#8221; said executive vice president Dan Duquette. &#8220;We had hoped that he&#8217;d be ready by June 1, but he&#8217;s pretty close. Our guys recommended that he probably needs a couple more starts to be ready to help our team. And on the basis of the progress he&#8217;s made on his rehab, we wanted to see the process through, so we purchased his contract for the major league club and he&#8217;ll continue his rehab.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thus far reports about Santana have been encouraging but nothing is guaranteed. Satnana last pitched during the 2012 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than have Johan Santana opt out of his contract the Baltimore Orioles purchased the contract of the left hander on Monday and then placed him on the 15-day disabled list. Santana, 35, has been slowly working his way back from a second shoulder capsule surgery. He has been pitching in extended spring training and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,553,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-johan-santana","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067","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=8067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8068,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions\/8068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8067"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}