{"id":10086,"date":"2015-02-27T17:45:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T22:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10086"},"modified":"2015-02-27T17:45:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T22:45:12","slug":"b-j-upton-to-miss-all-of-spring-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/02\/27\/b-j-upton-to-miss-all-of-spring-training\/","title":{"rendered":"B.J. Upton to miss all of spring training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/02\/bjupton.jpg\" alt=\"bjupton\" width=\"594\" height=\"464\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10087\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/02\/bjupton.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/02\/bjupton-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nMelvin Upton, formerly known as B.J., will miss all of spring training after being diagnosed with sesamoiditis in his left foot.<\/p>\n<p>Upton&#8217;s inflammation is occurring in the bone behind the ball of his foot. He will be in a cast for two weeks and a walking foot for the 4-6 weeks after that.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the start of the year that Upton needed after his first two seasons in Atlanta have resulted in a mere .198\/.279\/.314 line. Without him the Braves will now turn to a combination of Eury Perez, Eric Young and Zoilo Almonte in center field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melvin Upton, formerly known as B.J., will miss all of spring training after being diagnosed with sesamoiditis in his left foot. Upton&#8217;s inflammation is occurring in the bone behind the ball of his foot. He will be in a cast for two weeks and a walking foot for the 4-6 weeks after that. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,88,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-b-j-upton","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10088,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions\/10088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10086"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}