{"id":10207,"date":"2015-04-27T15:22:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T19:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10207"},"modified":"2015-04-27T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T19:22:57","slug":"chris-young-expected-to-start-for-royals-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/04\/27\/chris-young-expected-to-start-for-royals-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Young expected to start for Royals on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/04\/chrisyoung.jpg\" alt=\"chrisyoung\" width=\"960\" height=\"663\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10208\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/04\/chrisyoung.jpg 960w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/04\/chrisyoung-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><br \/>\nChris Young is tentatively scheduled to make a spot start for the Kansas City Royals on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Young, 35, won the 2014 American League comeback player of the year award yet had to settle for a one-year deal worth $675,000 from the Royals this spring. <\/p>\n<p>Since the season started Young has been working out of the Royals bullpen. A year ago he appeared in 30 games &#8211; 29 starts &#8211; for the Seattle Mariners posting a 3.65 ERA and a 1.23 WHIP.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Ned Yost hopes to start Chris Young on Friday, but will keep him available out of the bullpen for the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McCulloughStar\/status\/592766802737913856\">April 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Young would start in place of Edinson Volquez who dropped his appear of a five-game suspension earlier in the day. Royals manager Ned Yost did leave open the possibility that the Royals could be forced to use Young in middle relief prior to Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Young is tentatively scheduled to make a spot start for the Kansas City Royals on Friday night. Young, 35, won the 2014 American League comeback player of the year award yet had to settle for a one-year deal worth $675,000 from the Royals this spring. Since the season started Young has been working out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[522,137,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chris-young","9":"tag-kansas-city-royals","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207","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=10207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10209,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10207\/revisions\/10209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10207"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}