{"id":2010,"date":"2013-04-08T10:39:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T14:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2013-04-08T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T14:42:00","slug":"mri-on-john-lackey-comes-back-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/04\/08\/mri-on-john-lackey-comes-back-negative\/","title":{"rendered":"MRI on John Lackey comes back negative for structural damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/johnlackey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1943\" alt=\"johnlackey\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/johnlackey.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/johnlackey.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/johnlackey-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Lackey has been diagnosed with a mid-biceps strain and will likely be placed on the 15-day disabled list. The injury should miss less then a month after leaving his Saturday start with the injury.<\/p>\n<p>According to WEEI&#8217;s Rob Bradford, Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino said that it was his &#8220;understanding of the MRI is that he had a mid-biceps strain, no structural damage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That would be great news for the Red Sox and the 34-year-old pitcher who missed all of 2012 after needing Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Boston can either use Alfredo Aceves as a spot starter for call up a player from Triple-A such as Allen Webster.<\/p>\n<p>Lackey joined the Red Sox as a free agent prior to the 2010 season. Since that time he has been a disappointment making 62 starts and compiling a 26-24 record. During that span he has a 5.24 ERA and a 1.50 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lackey has been diagnosed with a mid-biceps strain and will likely be placed on the 15-day disabled list. The injury should miss less then a month after leaving his Saturday start with the injury. According to WEEI&#8217;s Rob Bradford, Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino said that it was his &#8220;understanding of the MRI is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,274],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-2010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-boston-red-sox","9":"tag-john-lackey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","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=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}