{"id":2251,"date":"2013-04-30T12:40:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2013-04-30T12:40:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:40:54","slug":"stephen-strasburg-structurally-perfect-will-not-miss-a-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/04\/30\/stephen-strasburg-structurally-perfect-will-not-miss-a-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Strasburg \u2018structurally perfect,\u2019 will not miss a start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2252\" alt=\"stephenstrasburg\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/stephenstrasburg1.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/stephenstrasburg1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/stephenstrasburg1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are no concerns over the forearm of Stephen Strasburg according to Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo.<\/p>\n<p>Rizzo termed Strasburg&#8217;s arm as \u201cstructurally perfect\u201d on Tuesday and said that the right hander would not miss a start.<\/p>\n<p>Those whispers about a problem with the forearm of the 24-year-old can be quieted as Rizzo said that there was &#8220;no problem&#8221; and that Strasburg only suffered irritation. The irritation is not related to the 2010 Tommy John surgery that Strasburg had.<\/p>\n<p>Last season the Nationals shut down Strasburg before the season ended, even as the team was on its way to the post season.<\/p>\n<p>This season Strasburg has pitched better then a 1-4 record would indicate. The ace of the Nationals staff has struck out 8.7 batters per nine innings and has a 3.13 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are no concerns over the forearm of Stephen Strasburg according to Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo. Rizzo termed Strasburg&#8217;s arm as \u201cstructurally perfect\u201d on Tuesday and said that the right hander would not miss a start. Those whispers about a problem with the forearm of the 24-year-old can be quieted as Rizzo said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[212,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-2251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-stephen-strasburg","9":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","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=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}