{"id":1916,"date":"2013-04-05T18:05:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T22:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2013-04-05T18:05:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T22:05:55","slug":"astros-pitcher-alex-white-to-have-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/04\/05\/astros-pitcher-alex-white-to-have-tommy-john-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros pitcher Alex White to have Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1917\" alt=\"MLB: Spring Training-Houston Astros at New York Mets\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/alexwhite.jpg\" width=\"709\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/alexwhite.jpg 709w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/alexwhite-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Houston Astros will be without starting pitcher Alex White for the 2013 season. White, a 24-year-old right hander, will have Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p>White had decreased velocity this spring and was originally diagnosed with a strained pitching elbow.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros acquired White from the Rockies in exchange for Wilton Lopez. Last season White made 23 appearances with the Rockies finishing with a 5.51 ERA and a 1.68 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>Travis Blackey who was acquired from Oakland in a trade on Thursday has been promoted to the big league roster. Edgar Gonzalez was designated for assignment in order to clear a spot on the 40 man roster for Blackley.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros also announced today that Erik Bedard will make his first start of the season on Tuesday. Bud Norris and Lucas Harrell will each move up a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Astros will be without starting pitcher Alex White for the 2013 season. White, a 24-year-old right hander, will have Tommy John surgery. White had decreased velocity this spring and was originally diagnosed with a strained pitching elbow. The Astros acquired White from the Rockies in exchange for Wilton Lopez. Last season White made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[268,93],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alex-white","9":"tag-houston-astros"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","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=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}