{"id":10324,"date":"2015-06-18T18:53:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T22:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10324"},"modified":"2015-06-18T18:53:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T22:53:04","slug":"kris-medlen-to-begin-rehab-assignment-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/06\/18\/kris-medlen-to-begin-rehab-assignment-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Kris Medlen to begin rehab assignment on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/krismedlen.jpg\" alt=\"krismedlen\" width=\"802\" height=\"461\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2034\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/krismedlen.jpg 802w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/krismedlen-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><br \/>\nPitcher Kris Medlen will begin a minor league rehab assignment on Friday with the Double-A Northwest Arkansas Travelers. <\/p>\n<p>Medlen is attempting to return to the majors after undergoing a second Tommy John surgery. As Medlen has started and operated out of the bullpen during his major league career it is unclear where his future is with the Royals.<\/p>\n<p>This past winter Medlen signed a two-year, $8.5 million contract with a $10 million mutual option for 2017. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitcher Kris Medlen will begin a minor league rehab assignment on Friday with the Double-A Northwest Arkansas Travelers. Medlen is attempting to return to the majors after undergoing a second Tommy John surgery. As Medlen has started and operated out of the bullpen during his major league career it is unclear where his future is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,137,10,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-kansas-city-royals","10":"tag-kris-medlen","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324","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=10324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10325,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324\/revisions\/10325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10324"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}