{"id":272398,"date":"2023-05-19T09:05:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=272398"},"modified":"2023-05-19T09:05:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:05:53","slug":"twins-select-contract-of-jose-de-leon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=272398","title":{"rendered":"Twins select contract of Jos\u00e9 De Le\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>LOS ANGELES, CA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Minnesota Twins announced that they have selected the contract of right-handed pitcher\u00a0<strong>Jos\u00e9 De Le\u00f3n<\/strong>\u00a0from Triple-A St. Paul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De Le\u00f3n, 30, pitched in nine games (4 starts) for the Saints this season, going 0-2 with a 3.62 ERA (27.1 IP, 11 ER), one save, 12 walks and 26 strikeouts. The Isabela, Puerto Rico native was signed by the Twins as a minor league free agent last December and has pitched in parts of five major league seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Rays and Cincinnati Reds, going 4-1 with an 8.44 ERA (48.0 IP, 45 ER), 35 walks and 67 strikeouts in 22 games (6 starts).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make room for De Le\u00f3n on the 26-man roster, the Twins have placed right-handed pitcher&nbsp;<strong>Jorge Alcala<\/strong>&nbsp;on the 15-day Injured List with a right forearm extensor muscle strain (retroactive to May 15). Alcala made 10 relief appearances for the Twins, going 0-1 with a 6.46 ERA (15.1 IP, 11 ER), eight walks and 12 strikeouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, CA\u00a0\u2013 The Minnesota Twins announced that they have selected the contract of right-handed pitcher\u00a0Jos\u00e9 De Le\u00f3n\u00a0from Triple-A St. Paul. De Le\u00f3n, 30, pitched in nine games (4 starts) for the Saints this season, going 0-2 with a 3.62 ERA (27.1 IP, 11 ER), one save, 12 walks and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":272399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272400,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272398\/revisions\/272400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/272399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}