Johan Santana

  • 4x MLB All- Star Game: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
  • 2x Cy Young Award: 2004, 2006
  • 2x TSN Pitcher of the Year: 2004, 2006
  • 2x Players Choice Award: 2004, 2006
  • 2x Warren Spahn Award: 2004, 2006
  • Gold Glove Award: 2007
  • Pitching Triple Crown: 2006
  • First in the AL in Wins: 2006
  • First in the AL in strikeouts: 2004, 2005, 2006
  • First in the AL in ERA: 2004, 2008
  • First the NL in ERA: 2008

Johan Santana ( born March 31, 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 came to the Minnesota Twins, for the 2000 he gave his debut in the MLB. 2004 and 2006 he won the Cy Young Award of the American League.

Acting as driving force led Santana 2004 his club from the Twin Cities in the play-offs, where they were defeated in the first round of the New York Yankees. In 2006 he managed to win the Triple Crown as a pitcher, he led the MLB in strikeouts (245) in ERA ( 2.77 ) and wins (19, shared 1st place with Chien -Ming Wang ).

Currently, he is regarded as one of the best strikeout pitcher. After 2005 he led in 2006 to these statistics.

On August 19, 2007 Johan Santana broke a record of his club, the Minnesota Twins by throwing 17 strikeouts in a game against the Texas Rangers. He was two strikeouts over the previous record.

In the off-season in 2007 Johan Santana was traded to the New York Mets. He signed a contract there in the amount of $ 137.5 million over six years, which also represented a record for the highest prize contract for a pitcher.

On June 1, 2012 Santana threw in the game the Mets against the St. Louis Cardinals the first no-hitter in the by then 51 -year franchise history of the Mets.

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