{"id":8114,"date":"2014-06-07T15:49:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T19:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8114"},"modified":"2014-06-07T15:49:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T19:49:37","slug":"twins-reach-one-year-deal-with-kendrys-morales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/07\/twins-reach-one-year-deal-with-kendrys-morales\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins reach one-year deal with Kendrys Morales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/kendrysmorales.jpg\" alt=\"kendrysmorales\" width=\"594\" height=\"427\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5694\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/kendrysmorales.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/kendrysmorales-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once the amateur draft began Kendrys Morales was no longer tied to draft pick compensation. It only took a few days before the slugger signed a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Morales has joined the Minnesota Twins and will earn the prorated portion of $12 million for the rest of the season. That works out to roughly $8 million. Numerous teams were interested in Morales but were unwilling to surrender a draft pick which left the 30-year-old unsigned until now.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The contract for Kendrys Morales is one-year and prorated $12 million. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23MNTwins&amp;src=hash\">#MNTwins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rhett Bollinger (@RhettBollinger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RhettBollinger\/statuses\/475359916933120000\">June 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In 156 games last season Morales hit .277\/.336\/.449 with 23 hom runs and 80 RBI for the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the amateur draft began Kendrys Morales was no longer tied to draft pick compensation. It only took a few days before the slugger signed a one-year deal. Morales has joined the Minnesota Twins and will earn the prorated portion of $12 million for the rest of the season. That works out to roughly $8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,151,134,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-kendrys-morales","10":"tag-minnesota-twins","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114","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=8114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8115,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions\/8115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8114"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}