Johan Santana
Johan Santana
Johan Alexander Santana Araqueis a Venezuelan professional baseball starting pitcher who is a free agent. Santana pitched in Major League Baseballfor the Minnesota Twins from 2000 to 2007 and for the New York Mets from 2008 to 2012, sidelined by injury challenges since the 2012 season. A two-time Cy Young Award winner with the Twins, Santana is a four-time All-Star and earned a pitching triple crown in 2006. On June 1, 2012, Santana threw a no-hitter against the St. Louis...
NationalityVenezuelan
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth13 March 1979
CountryVenezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
In our countries, fans go beyond the game. It's about passion.
I just hope it's good for him and he'll help us.
In the Caribbean, it's more than about just being fans. It's about passion.
In order for you to win a game, a lot of things have to go right,
If you look around at everything that has happened to me, to the whole starting pitching staff, if we have had won all those little games, then the whole pitching staff should be Cy Youngs. It didn't happen for me to get those wins, but that doesn't mean I'm done working.
We're not done. We're just going to continue playing and hoping to put some wins together again.
We did this together. We, as a team, made history tonight.
It didn't happen for me. I didn't get those wins,
I threw some good pitches and they got some good swings.
I think we showed everybody what Latin baseball is all about. That's the way we do it. For either side, we showed the passion of the game.
Hopefully they consider that. What's going to happen? I don't know.
Today, I think we showed what Latin baseball is all about. That's what we do.
I wasn't surprised at all. That's the way we do it. In our countries, fans go beyond the game. It's about passion. It's about loving the game. When it comes down to that, in the Latin countries, we do a pretty good job.
To finally get a chance to see him after all the talk about him being lights out is great. And I think it's true. I think he has a very good chance to be with this ballclub.