{"id":10143,"date":"2015-04-06T14:07:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T18:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10143"},"modified":"2015-04-06T14:07:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T18:07:50","slug":"dan-uggla-in-nationals-opening-day-lineup-no-new-contract-for-jordan-zimmerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/04\/06\/dan-uggla-in-nationals-opening-day-lineup-no-new-contract-for-jordan-zimmerman\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Uggla in Nationals opening day lineup, no new contract for Jordan Zimmerman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dan Uggla is starting at second base for the Washington Nationals in their Opening Day match-up against the New York Mets.<\/p>\n

With Anthony Rendon out with a knee injury, the door was opened for Uggla to get some early playing time. He followed up a poor season with a strong spring and may be able to catch fire early for the Nationals.<\/p>\n

The full Nationals roster for Opening Day is: Michael Taylor CF, Yunel Escobar 3B, Bryce Harper RF, Ryan Zimmerman 1B, Wilson Ramos C, Ian Desmond SS, Uggla 2B, Tyler Moore LF, Max Scherzer SP.<\/p>\n

No contract progress with Jordan Zimmerman<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Nationals have still not been able to work out a new contract with starting pitcher Jordan Zimmerman.<\/p>\n

There had been a deadline of Opening Day for the two to work out a new deal so it is assumed that talks will now be tabled.<\/p>\n

Zimmerman is coming off a fine season in which he had a 2.66 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, and 182\/29 K\/BB ratio in 199 2\/3 innings last season. If Zimmerman is allowed to hit the open market then he will earn himself a fine payday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Uggla is starting at second base for the Washington Nationals in their Opening Day match-up against the New York Mets. With Anthony Rendon out with a knee injury, the door was opened for Uggla to get some early playing time. He followed up a poor season with a strong spring and may be able […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[440,503,501,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dan-uggla","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143","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=10143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10146,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143\/revisions\/10146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10143"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}