{"id":2849,"date":"2013-05-29T12:49:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2013-05-29T12:49:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:49:25","slug":"cubs-pitcher-kyuji-fujikawa-to-have-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/05\/29\/cubs-pitcher-kyuji-fujikawa-to-have-tommy-john-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs pitcher Kyuji Fujikawa to have Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1987\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1987\" alt=\"kyujifujikawa\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/kyujifujikawa.jpg\" width=\"676\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/kyujifujikawa.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/kyujifujikawa-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Chicago Cubs announced on Wednesday that reliever Kyuji Fujikawa will require Tommy John surgery. Fujikawa was signed to a two-year deal worth $9.5 million last winter.<\/p>\n<p>It was hoped that Fujikawa had a forearm strain.<\/p>\n<p>Fujikawa suffered the injury while pitching in Sunday\u2019s win over Cincinnati. The pitcher said he heard a popping sound and was examined by a team physician on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs claimed Baltimore reliever Alex Burnett to replace Fujikawa in the bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>On the year Fujikawa appeared in 12 games with a 5.25 ERA and a 1.08 WHIP. He also saved two games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs announced on Wednesday that reliever Kyuji Fujikawa will require Tommy John surgery. Fujikawa was signed to a two-year deal worth $9.5 million last winter. It was hoped that Fujikawa had a forearm strain. Fujikawa suffered the injury while pitching in Sunday\u2019s win over Cincinnati. The pitcher said he heard a popping sound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[153,116],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-2849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-kyuji-fujikawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849","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=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}