Johan Santana
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"Johan Alexander Santana Araque" is a Venezuelan Major League Baseball starting pitcher who is currently a free agent. Santana pitched for the Minnesota Twins from 2000 to 2007 and for the New York Mets from 2008 to 2012. In June 2014 Santana tore his Achilles tendon ending his attempt at a comeback. A two-time Cy Young Award winner with the Twins, Santana is a four-time All-Star and earned a Triple crown (baseball)/pitching triple crown in 2006. On June 1, 2012, Santana threw the first no-hitter in New York Mets franchise history against the St. Louis Cardinals.

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Most of the time it's going to take the whole team to do what you want to do, to see this team succeed and go to the playoffs, ... Yeah, pitching is a big part of it, but we haven't been able to put everything together.

It's difficult, but we're making it look like it's impossible. And that's not the way it should be.

It's been incredible. It seems like he's put that aside and went out there and showed you the type of pitcher he is and that he likes to win.

They are a hot team and I didn't get the job done.

I'm all right. It's been like this for a few weeks.

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.

I know who Mark Buehrle is. I knew it would be tough. We got ahead and put up some runs and from there I was just trying to protect the lead.

If he's not, he's close. He's been doing it for so many years. He can make contact on anything. He's always hacking, it doesn't matter the pitch.

To me, he showed a lot of improvement from last year.