{"id":33764,"date":"2013-12-05T14:50:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=33764"},"modified":"2013-12-05T14:50:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T20:50:25","slug":"twins-sign-phil-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=33764","title":{"rendered":"Twins Sign Phil Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hughesphil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33765\" alt=\"hughesphil\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hughesphil.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; The Minnesota Twins have signed former Yankees right-hander Phil Hughes to a $24 million, three-year contract.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Twins reached agreement with Hughes last week and finished it on Thursday after the 27-year-old passed his physical. Hughes went 4-14 with a 5.19 ERA for the Yankees last season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Twins are hoping that a move out of hitter-friendly Yankee Stadium to spacious Target Field will help Hughes rediscover the promise he showed earlier in his career. Hughes was a first-round draft pick and an All-Star in 2010.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Twins starters had the worst ERA in baseball last season, so GM Terry Ryan has been aggressive in trying to upgrade the staff.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Twins signed right-hander Ricky Nolasco to a $49 million, four-year contract Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; The Minnesota Twins have signed former Yankees right-hander Phil Hughes to a $24 million, three-year contract. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Twins reached agreement with Hughes last week and finished it on Thursday after the 27-year-old passed his physical. Hughes went 4-14 with a 5.19 ERA for the Yankees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33767,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33764\/revisions\/33767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}