Report: 1B Carlos Santana agrees to one-year, $5.25 million deal with Twins
Free agent Carlos Santana and the Minnesota Twins are in settlement on a one-year $5.25 million contract, in response to a number of reviews.
The 37-year-old first baseman/designated hitter spent 2023 with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Milwaukee Brewers, showing in 146 video games. He posted a .747 OPS with 23 house runs, 33 doubles and 86 RBIs.
Santana additionally performed in each of Milwaukee’s playoff video games within the wild-card spherical towards the Arizona Diamondbacks, choosing up a pair of hits in seven at-bats.
A one-time All-Star, Santana has performed in 14 MLB seasons with the Brewers, Pirates, Seattle Mariners, Kansas City Royals, Cleveland Guardians and Philadelphia Phillies.
He obtained MVP votes in 2013 and 2019, and has racked up over 6800 at-bats in his profession with a .242/.356/.432 slash line with 301 house runs.
While Santana solely performed in two post-season video games in 2023, he has performed into October on six separate events, together with serving to Cleveland to the World Series in 2016. In 30 playoff video games, he has posted a .685 OPS with 5 house runs.
The Twins have misplaced a number of items from their lineup after profitable the AL Central in 2023 and advancing to the ALDS. So, they are going to hope that Santana could make up among the manufacturing misplaced by the now-departed Joey Gallo, Donovan Solano, Jorge Polanco and Michael A. Taylor.
