{"id":1479,"date":"2013-02-28T11:51:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2013-03-01T13:52:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T18:52:13","slug":"elvis-andrus-forced-out-of-lineup-by-new-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/02\/28\/elvis-andrus-forced-out-of-lineup-by-new-tattoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Andrus forced out of lineup by new tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1480\" alt=\"elvisandrus\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/elvisandrus.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/elvisandrus.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/elvisandrus-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elvis Andrus will not play in Thursday&#8217;s game against Cleveland because a new tattoo is causing sensitivity in his left biceps.<\/p>\n<p>The news was first broken by Gerry Fraley of the Dallas Morning News. Fraley <a href=\"&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Elvis Andrus not playing today for Rangers. New and elaborate tattoo caused ``sensitivity'' in left biceps.&lt;\/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Gerry Fraley (@gfraley) &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/gfraley\/status\/307158826925318144&quot;&gt;February 28, 2013&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;\" target=\"_blank\">called<\/a> the tattoo elaborate but never posted a photo of it. The tattoo is said to have a likeness of his late father.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Fortunately Andrus has posted a photo of the tattoo on twitter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1484 aligncenter\" alt=\"andrustattoo\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/andrustattoo.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/andrustattoo.jpg 660w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/andrustattoo-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With Andrus set to leave the Rangers on Saturday in preparation for the World Baseball Classic, the Rangers probably would have preferred that their 24-year-old shortstop had waited to get the tattoo. On the flip side they should be glad he did not choose to get the tattoo in the middle of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Andrus will play on Team Venezuela in the WBC. Should the team reach the finals he would be out of Rangers camp until March 20.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elvis Andrus will not play in Thursday&#8217;s game against Cleveland because a new tattoo is causing sensitivity in his left biceps. The news was first broken by Gerry Fraley of the Dallas Morning News. Fraley called the tattoo elaborate but never posted a photo of it. The tattoo is said to have a likeness of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","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=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}