{"id":22449,"date":"2014-08-22T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-red-sox-land-cuban-of-castillo\/"},"modified":"2014-08-22T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T12:43:00","slug":"report-red-sox-land-cuban-of-castillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-red-sox-land-cuban-of-castillo\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Red Sox land Cuban OF Castillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Boston Red Sox have reportedly agreed to a deal with Cuban outfielder Rusney Castillo.<\/p>\n<p>According to MLB.com, the deal is for $72 million over six years. A separate report has the deal worth $72.5 million over seven years with Castillo to join the club as early as this season.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball America reported last December that Castillo defected from Cuba and was looking for a country of residency so he could sign with a major league team. He since established residency in Haiti and was cleared by the U.S. government to sign with a major league team last month.<\/p>\n<p>According to Baseball America&#8217;s analysis of Castillo, the 27-year-old is a 5- foot-9, 185-pounder whose main tool is speed. Others compare him to an Andrew McCutchen-type, bringing above average speed, power and average. He is not considered to be a straight slugger like countrymen Yoenis Cespedes and Jose Abreu.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2010-11 Serie Nacional season, Castillo led the league with 29 stolen bases and hit .324 with 18 home runs. He would now share the outfield with Cespedes in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that the Detroit Tigers were also in the running for Castillo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Boston Red Sox have reportedly agreed to a deal with Cuban outfielder Rusney Castillo. According to MLB.com, the deal is for $72 million over six years. A separate report has the deal worth $72.5 million over seven years with Castillo to join the club as early as this season. Baseball America reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[177,188,189],"class_list":["post-22449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-red-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}