{"id":92990,"date":"2016-01-25T15:12:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T21:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=92990"},"modified":"2016-01-25T15:13:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T21:13:20","slug":"twins-plouffe-sign-on-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=92990","title":{"rendered":"Twins, Plouffe sign one year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37392\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/twins1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37392\" alt=\"Plouffe, center\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/twins1-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/twins1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/twins1-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/twins1-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/twins1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plouffe, center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2013 Third baseman Trevor Plouffe and the Minnesota Twins have agreed to a $7.25 million, one-year contract to avoid arbitration.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Plouffe gets a raise of $2.45 million under Monday\u2019s agreement. He hit .244 last season with 22 homers and a career-high 86 RBIs. He also set career bests in hits (140), runs (74) and games (152), solidifying himself in the middle of the Twins order.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The settlement was $225,000 below the midpoint between the $7.9 million Plouffe had asked for in arbitration and the $7 million Minnesota had offered.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Plouffe\u2019s development as a solid power hitter and capable defensive third baseman led the Twins to move prized prospect Miguel Sano to the outfield. Sano came up through the minors as a third baseman and mostly served as a DH in his 80 games with the Twins last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2013 Third baseman Trevor Plouffe and the Minnesota Twins have agreed to a $7.25 million, one-year contract to avoid arbitration. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Plouffe gets a raise of $2.45 million under Monday\u2019s agreement. He hit .244 last season with 22 homers and a career-high 86 RBIs. He also set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92990","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=92990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92994,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92990\/revisions\/92994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}