{"id":11406,"date":"2018-12-10T21:40:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T02:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11406"},"modified":"2018-12-10T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T02:40:02","slug":"shohei-ohtani-has-full-range-of-motion-in-right-elbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/12\/10\/shohei-ohtani-has-full-range-of-motion-in-right-elbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani has full range of motion in right elbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/12\/ohtani.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/12\/ohtani.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/12\/ohtani-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nShohei Ohtani has full range of motion in his surgically-repaired right elbow.<\/p>\n<p>This is obviously good news for the player the Angels figure to use as a full-time DH in 2019. After undergoing Tommy John surgery in early October, Ohtani has been rehabbing in his native Japan. <\/p>\n<p>General manager Billy Eppler said on Monday that it was too early for the Angels to have a hitting plan for him. Ohtani is expected to return to the states in January for a checkup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shohei Ohtani\u2019s rehab from Tommy John surgery has been progressing well in Japan. He has full range of motion. He\u2019ll return to the US for a checkup with doctors in January. But still too early to set up a hitting plan for 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rhett Bollinger (@RhettBollinger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RhettBollinger\/status\/1072300376802631680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A two way player, Ohtani won the 2018 AL Rookie of the Year award. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shohei Ohtani has full range of motion in his surgically-repaired right elbow. This is obviously good news for the player the Angels figure to use as a full-time DH in 2019. After undergoing Tommy John surgery in early October, Ohtani has been rehabbing in his native Japan. General manager Billy Eppler said on Monday that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,114,501,1049],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-los-angeles-angels","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-shohei-ohtani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406","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=11406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11408,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions\/11408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11406"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}