{"id":955,"date":"2012-12-21T11:36:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=955"},"modified":"2012-12-21T11:36:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:36:34","slug":"twins-sign-rich-harden-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/21\/twins-sign-rich-harden-to-minor-league-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins sign Rich Harden to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-956\" alt=\"richharden\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/richharden.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/richharden.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/richharden-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Twins have signed right handed pitcher Rich Harden to a minor league contract. Harden will be invited to spring training and will compete for a spot at the end of the Twins rotation.<\/p>\n<p>Harden, 31, has a long history of injuries and missed the entire 2012 season following surgery to repair a torn capsule in his right shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins were also interested in bringing back former pitcher Francisco Liriano but he signed a two-year deal with Pittsburgh worth $14 million.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the Twins have Vance Worley, Scott Diamond and Kyle Gibson slated for three spots in their rotation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Twins have signed right handed pitcher Rich Harden to a minor league contract. Harden will be invited to spring training and will compete for a spot at the end of the Twins rotation. Harden, 31, has a long history of injuries and missed the entire 2012 season following surgery to repair a torn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[134,154],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-minnesota-twins","9":"tag-rich-harden"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","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=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}