{"id":5733,"date":"2013-12-20T11:41:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T16:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5733"},"modified":"2013-12-20T11:41:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T16:41:36","slug":"twins-land-catcher-kurt-suzuki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/20\/twins-land-catcher-kurt-suzuki\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins land catcher Kurt Suzuki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5734\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/kurtsuzuki.jpg\" alt=\"Kurt Suzuki is now a Twin\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/kurtsuzuki.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/kurtsuzuki-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Minnesota Twins sought to sign a veteran catcher this offseason. On Friday reports began circulating that th Twins had signed Kurt Suzuki to a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Suzuki, 30, will earn $2.75 million under terms of his deal with the Twins. He could earn more in incentives while splitting time behind home plate with Josmil Pinto.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source: Suzuki deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Twins&amp;src=hash\">#Twins<\/a> is for one year, $2.75M plus incentives.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/414059093876551681\">December 20, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last season Suzuki&#8217;s offensive numbers bottomed out to .232\/.290\/.337 with five home runs and 32 RBI in 285 at-bats. He&#8217;s unlikely to improve on that line much but offers the Twins stellar defense and is considered a positive clubhouse guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Twins sought to sign a veteran catcher this offseason. On Friday reports began circulating that th Twins had signed Kurt Suzuki to a one-year deal. Suzuki, 30, will earn $2.75 million under terms of his deal with the Twins. He could earn more in incentives while splitting time behind home plate with Josmil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[583,134,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-kurt-suzuki","9":"tag-minnesota-twins","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5733"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}