{"id":11334,"date":"2018-08-27T14:39:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T18:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11334"},"modified":"2018-08-27T14:39:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T18:39:54","slug":"lance-mccullers-unlikely-to-rejoin-astros-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/08\/27\/lance-mccullers-unlikely-to-rejoin-astros-rotation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lance McCullers unlikely to rejoin Astros rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11335\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/08\/mccullers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/08\/mccullers.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/08\/mccullers-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Lance McCullers returns to the Astros it likely will not be in the rotation.<\/p>\n<p>On the disabled list since Aug 5, McCullers is not expected to be a part of the Astros rotation according to manager AJ Hinch.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_18_0_3_1535394540850_2640\">&#8221;I guess never say never &#8217;cause once you get on the mound and get going things can progress a different way, but I think the focus will be and probably should be shorter stints,&#8221; Hinch said.<\/p>\n<p>Hunch does not believe that McCullers who was 10-6 with a 3.93 ERA prior to his DL stint will have enough time to work up the stamina in his arm to start.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_18_0_3_1535394540850_2654\">&#8221;We knew it was September until we were going to consider doing anything. Then we thought we could be a little bit more aggressive with him, but we&#8217;re going to put that on pause and just have him do a throwing program,&#8221; Hinch said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_18_0_3_1535394540850_2660\">&#8221;He&#8217;s feeling pretty symptom-free. I think his throwing has been fine, but kind of the re-evaluation of him, we&#8217;ve decided to push it back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Lance McCullers returns to the Astros it likely will not be in the rotation. On the disabled list since Aug 5, McCullers is not expected to be a part of the Astros rotation according to manager AJ Hinch. &#8221;I guess never say never &#8217;cause once you get on the mound and get going things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[93,1083,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-11334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-houston-astros","tag-lance-mccullers","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334","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=11334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11336,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334\/revisions\/11336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11334"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}