{"id":1610,"date":"2013-03-14T11:22:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T15:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2013-03-14T11:22:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T15:22:43","slug":"athletics-pitcher-fernando-rodriguez-needs-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/03\/14\/athletics-pitcher-fernando-rodriguez-needs-tommy-john-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics pitcher Fernando Rodriguez needs Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www1.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Fernando+Rodriguez+Houston+Astros+v+Texas+ve2Hlpr_ES_l.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The season of right-handed reliever Fernando Rodriguez is over before it began. The 28-year-old old will need Tommy John surgery to repair a ligament in his right elbow.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez will miss the entire 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland acquired Rodriguez from Houston along with Jed Lowrie. Chris Carter went to Houston in the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez&#8217;s fastball could reach 95-mph but he lasted just one pitch in his first spring outing on Monday. He is 4-13 with a 4.89 career ERA and was 2-10 with a 5.37 ERA with the Astros last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The season of right-handed reliever Fernando Rodriguez is over before it began. The 28-year-old old will need Tommy John surgery to repair a ligament in his right elbow. Rodriguez will miss the entire 2013 season. Oakland acquired Rodriguez from Houston along with Jed Lowrie. Chris Carter went to Houston in the deal. Rodriguez&#8217;s fastball could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","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=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}