{"id":1671,"date":"2013-03-19T13:24:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2013-03-19T13:24:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:24:57","slug":"cubs-ian-stewart-to-miss-start-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/03\/19\/cubs-ian-stewart-to-miss-start-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs&#8217; Ian Stewart to miss start of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1672\" alt=\"ianstewart\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/ianstewart.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/ianstewart.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/ianstewart-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ian Stewart will miss Opening Day. The Chicago Cubs had re-signed the 27-year-old this winter hoping that he would take the reigns of the third base job.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart has spent a good portion of his brief major league career on the disabled list. Last season he missed time with a wrist injury.<\/p>\n<p>A recent MRI showed fluid in the left quad of Stewart. Owed $2 million for the season the Cubs could save $1.5 million of that by cutting him before Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what it\u2019s like to play through pain,\u201d Stewart <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/baseball\/cubs\/chi-chicago-cubs-news-ian-stewart-20130319,0,2301753.story\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> the Chicago Tribune. \u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s hard about this. I can\u2019t get through that pain and play with it. It\u2019s just too much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luis Valbuena will be the Cubs starting third basemen when Opening Day comes around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Stewart will miss Opening Day. The Chicago Cubs had re-signed the 27-year-old this winter hoping that he would take the reigns of the third base job. Stewart has spent a good portion of his brief major league career on the disabled list. Last season he missed time with a wrist injury. A recent MRI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","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=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}