{"id":1862,"date":"2013-04-01T21:14:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T01:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2013-04-01T21:14:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T01:14:29","slug":"news-not-good-on-jonny-venters-surgery-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/04\/01\/news-not-good-on-jonny-venters-surgery-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"News not good on Jonny Venters, surgery possible"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The latest news on Braves reliever Jonny Venters is not encouraging. Venters met with Dr. James Andrews on Monday.<\/p>\n

Andrews performed ligament-replacement surgery on Venters’ left elbow in 2005.<\/p>\n

The best case scenario for Venters is a disabled list stint of a month notes<\/a> Jon Heyman. The clear concern is that Venters will need to undergo Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n

Venters has been one of the best relievers in baseball the last three seasons but has also amassed the most appearances during that span.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Venters has appeared in 230 games during that span posting a 2.23 ERA and a 1.24 WHIP. He has struck out 258 batters in 229 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest news on Braves reliever Jonny Venters is not encouraging. Venters met with Dr. James Andrews on Monday. Andrews performed ligament-replacement surgery on Venters’ left elbow in 2005. The best case scenario for Venters is a disabled list stint of a month notes Jon Heyman. The clear concern is that Venters will need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,219],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-jonny-venters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","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=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}