{"id":26628,"date":"2014-12-02T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-torii-hunter-returns-to-twins\/"},"modified":"2014-12-02T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T22:30:00","slug":"report-torii-hunter-returns-to-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-torii-hunter-returns-to-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Torii Hunter returns to Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Torii Hunter is reportedly returning to the Minnesota Twins.<\/p>\n<p>According USA Today on Tuesday night, Hunter has agreed to a one-year, $10.5 million contract with the team that drafted him in the first round 21 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter, who turns 40 in July, played his first 1,234 major-league games for the Twins between 1997 and 2007 before signing with the Angels as a free agent in 2007 and is still widely identified with the team.<\/p>\n<p>He hit 192 homers for Minnesota, batted .271 with a .324 on-base percentage and won a Gold Glove in his last seven seasons with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter spent five seasons with the Angels and the past two with Detroit, batting .286 with 17 homers and 83 RBI in 142 games this year for the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>He is a career .279 hitter with 331 homers, 1,310 RBI and a .334 on-base percentage and has been an All-Star five times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Torii Hunter is reportedly returning to the Minnesota Twins. According USA Today on Tuesday night, Hunter has agreed to a one-year, $10.5 million contract with the team that drafted him in the first round 21 years ago. Hunter, who turns 40 in July, played his first 1,234 major-league games for the Twins between [&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":[72,214,215],"class_list":["post-26628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26628","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=26628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}