Johan Santana
Johan Santana | |
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Johan Santana at the pitch
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New York Mets - No. 57 | |
Starting pitcher | |
Born: March 13, 1979 in Tovar , Venezuela |
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Strikes: Left | Throws: Left |
Debut in Major League Baseball | |
April 3, 2000 for the Minnesota Twins | |
MLB statistics (until the end of the 2010 season) |
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Win-loss | 133-69 |
ERA | 3.10 |
Strikeouts | 1,877 |
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Johan Santana (born March 13, 1979 in Tovar , Mérida , Venezuela ) is a Venezuelan baseball player who plays as a pitcher in Major League Baseball for the New York Mets .
After he was drafted by the Florida Marlins in 1999 , he joined the Minnesota Twins , for whom he made his MLB debut in 2000. In 2004 and 2006 he won the American League's Cy Young Award .
Acting as a draft horse, Santana led his club from the Twin Cities to the play-offs in 2004, where they were defeated by the New York Yankees in the first round . In 2006 he managed to win the Triple Crown as a pitcher, he led the MLB in strikeouts (245), in ERA (2.77) and in wins (19, shared 1st place with Chien-Ming Wang).
He is currently considered one of the best strikeout pitchers. After 2005 he also led these statistics in 2006.
On August 19, 2007, Johan Santana broke a record for his club, the Minnesota Twins, by throwing 17 strikeouts in a game against the Texas Rangers . He was two strikeouts above the previous record.
In the 2007 off-season Johan Santana was traded to the New York Mets . There he signed a contract worth $ 137.5 million over 6 years, which was also a record for the highest-value contract for a pitcher.
On June 1, 2012, Santana threw in the Mets game against the St. Louis Cardinals, the first no-hitter in the Mets' 51-year franchise history.
Santana played his last season in 2012. He then tried repeatedly at various MLB clubs, but was unable to earn a place in a major league squad due to a serious shoulder injury and then a ruptured Achilles tendon .
Web links
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SURNAME | Santana, Johan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Venezuelan baseball player |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1979 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tovar , Mérida , Venezuela |