{"id":2866,"date":"2013-05-30T11:49:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T15:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2013-05-30T11:49:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T15:49:34","slug":"indians-could-move-brett-myers-to-bullpen-upon-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/05\/30\/indians-could-move-brett-myers-to-bullpen-upon-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians could move Brett Myers to bullpen upon return"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2867\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2867\" alt=\"brettmyers\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/brettmyers.jpg\" width=\"676\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/brettmyers.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/brettmyers-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Cleveland Indians signed right handed pitcher Brett Myers to a contract with the intention of using him in the starting rotation. Myers, who has experience starting and relieving, was diagnosed with a UCL tear in April.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Myers attempted a rehab start at Double-A. The 32-year-old felt soreness after the four-plus inning outing and has not thrown since.<\/p>\n<p>The Indians are still hopeful that Myers will be able to rejoin the rotation before long but manager Terry Francona realizes that Myers may be forced to the pen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As he comes back, we&#8217;d like to let him come back as a starter,&#8221; Francona said. &#8220;Saying that, I guess if it ever got to the point where we thought he could handle being a reliever, maybe that&#8217;s something we would look at, just out of common sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Myers made four starts for the Indians in April. He had an 0-3 record and 8.02 ERA with 12 strikeouts and five walks over 21 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Indians signed right handed pitcher Brett Myers to a contract with the intention of using him in the starting rotation. Myers, who has experience starting and relieving, was diagnosed with a UCL tear in April. Last week Myers attempted a rehab start at Double-A. The 32-year-old felt soreness after the four-plus inning outing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[350,156],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-2866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brett-myers","9":"tag-cleveland-indians"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","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=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}