{"id":8299,"date":"2014-06-22T21:42:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T01:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8299"},"modified":"2014-06-22T21:53:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T01:53:11","slug":"twins-want-kendrys-morales-beyond-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/22\/twins-want-kendrys-morales-beyond-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins want Kendrys Morales beyond 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8300\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8300\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/kendrysmorales.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/kendrysmorales.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/kendrysmorales-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Minnesota Twins made headlines and confused everyone when they signed switch hitting designated hitter Kendrys Morales following the MLB Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Signing Morles left a lot of people wondering\u00a0what the Twins were thinking.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins are currently last in the AL Central making Morales a potential trade chip but Nick Cafardo of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/sports\/2014\/06\/21\/major-league-teams-will-busy-deadline\/uLMH8B6t3Lle0TcJPeheDK\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Boston Globe<\/a>\u00a0suggests that the team is interested in him beyond this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;\u00a0don\u2019t be surprised to see them try to re-up him. According to a major league source, the Twins like his switch-hitting bat and his influence on the younger Twins. In a short time, Morales has made an impact in the clubhouse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Twins can either work out an extension in season or at the end of the year, or try to\u00a0trade him at the deadline and sign him in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Though 12 games Morales is hitting .213\/.275\/.277 with five RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Twins made headlines and confused everyone when they signed switch hitting designated hitter Kendrys Morales following the MLB Draft. Signing Morles left a lot of people wondering\u00a0what the Twins were thinking. The Twins are currently last in the AL Central making Morales a potential trade chip but Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe\u00a0suggests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8300,"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-8299","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\/8299","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=8299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8301,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions\/8301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8299"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}