{"id":27125,"date":"2014-12-12T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/twins-make-ervin-santana-signing-official\/"},"modified":"2014-12-13T02:30:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T02:30:31","slug":"twins-make-ervin-santana-signing-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/twins-make-ervin-santana-signing-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins make Ervin Santana signing official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Minnesota Twins announced Friday that they have signed free-agent pitcher Ervin Santana to a four-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms were not released, but multiple outlets reported during the winter meetings that the right-hander&#8217;s contract is worth $54 million and includes a vesting option for a fifth year.<\/p>\n<p>Santana, who turned 32 on Friday, started 31 games for the Atlanta Braves in 2014 and was 14-10 with a 3.95 ERA. He also struck out 179 batters in 196 innings and allowed just 16 home runs after surrendering a league-high 39 two years before.<\/p>\n<p>The hurler spent the first eight years of his career with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim before pitching for the Kansas City Royals in 2013. He is 119-100 lifetime with a 4.17 ERA 299 games (296 starts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Minnesota Twins announced Friday that they have signed free-agent pitcher Ervin Santana to a four-year contract. Financial terms were not released, but multiple outlets reported during the winter meetings that the right-hander&#8217;s contract is worth $54 million and includes a vesting option for a fifth year. Santana, who turned 32 [&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-27125","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\/27125","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=27125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27126,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27125\/revisions\/27126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}