{"id":10238,"date":"2015-05-13T10:34:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T14:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10238"},"modified":"2015-05-13T10:34:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T14:34:29","slug":"matt-wieters-may-play-sparingly-upon-return-to-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/05\/13\/matt-wieters-may-play-sparingly-upon-return-to-orioles\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Wieters may play sparingly upon return to Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10239\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/05\/mattwieters.jpg\" alt=\"mattwieters\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/05\/mattwieters.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/05\/mattwieters-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Baltimore Orioles are expected to activate catcher Matt Wieters on June 4 when he is first eligible to come off the 60-day disabled list.<\/p>\n<p>Wieters had\u00a0Tommy John surgery to reconstruct a ligament in his right elbow last June and has been rehabbing\u00a0at extended spring training but when he return next month he may not be a regular in the lineup initially.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was only going to catch him about four out of seven [days] anyway. But we may do an every-other-day thing with him,\u201d Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. \u201cWe\u2019ll see how it goes. Today was a good step for him. \u2026 Let me get to the fourth first. That\u2019s what I\u2019m OK with. Having Matt every other day is better than not having him at all. And I think that will progress from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For now the Orioles will continue to start Caleb Jospeh at catcher. Jospeh is hitting a surprising .284\/.379\/.457 with three home runs in 25 games.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Orioles are expected to activate catcher Matt Wieters on June 4 when he is first eligible to come off the 60-day disabled list. Wieters had\u00a0Tommy John surgery to reconstruct a ligament in his right elbow last June and has been rehabbing\u00a0at extended spring training but when he return next month he may not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,631,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-10238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-matt-wieters","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238","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=10238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10240,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238\/revisions\/10240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10238"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}