{"id":51175,"date":"2014-07-31T11:08:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=51175"},"modified":"2014-07-31T15:59:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:59:27","slug":"twins-deal-sam-fuld-to-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=51175","title":{"rendered":"Twins Deal Sam Fuld To A&#8217;s, Re-ink Kurt Suzuki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) &#8211; The Oakland Athletics have traded left-hander Tommy Milone to the Minnesota Twins for outfielder Sam Fuld.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The A&#8217;s announced the deal Thursday morning before the trade deadline.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Milone requested a trade given his recent success and demotion to Triple-A Sacramento. The left-hander went 6-0 with a 2.62 ERA over 11 starts when he was sent down July 5 following the trade for Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel from the Cubs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fuld began the season with Oakland. The A&#8217;s liked Fuld coming out of spring training but designated him for assignment April 12. The Twins claimed him off waivers eight days later.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He and newly acquired Jonny Gomes are likely to compete for time in left field after Yoenis Cespedes was traded to Boston for left-hander Jon Lester and Gomes.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Twins have signed All-Star catcher Kurt Suzuki to a two-year, $12 million contract extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) &#8211; The Oakland Athletics have traded left-hander Tommy Milone to the Minnesota Twins for outfielder Sam Fuld. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The A&#8217;s announced the deal Thursday morning before the trade deadline. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Milone requested a trade given his recent success and demotion to Triple-A Sacramento. The left-hander [&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-51175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51175","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=51175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51177,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51175\/revisions\/51177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}