{"id":4530,"date":"2013-08-26T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T20:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2013-08-26T16:20:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T20:20:04","slug":"mets-ace-matt-harvey-has-torn-ucl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/26\/mets-ace-matt-harvey-has-torn-ucl\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets ace Matt Harvey has torn UCL"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4531\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4531\" alt=\"mattharvey\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/mattharvey.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/mattharvey.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/mattharvey-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New York Mets starting pitcher Matt Harvey is headed to the disabled list with a torn ulnar collateral ligament.<\/p>\n<p>First reporting the news was\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WFAN660\/status\/372080271077564416\">WFAN&#8217;s Mike Francesa.<\/a> A torn UCL almost always leads to Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets will give Harvey a chance to rest his arm first before considering surgery.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to starting the All-Star game this season, Harvey has a 2.27 ERA and a 0.93 WHIP. Harvey has a 6.16 K\/BB ratio over 178 1\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets had planned to shut Harvey down around the 200-inning mark this season but losing him to Tommy John surgery would relieved a huge blow to any chances the Mets had of competing in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Mets starting pitcher Matt Harvey is headed to the disabled list with a torn ulnar collateral ligament. First reporting the news was\u00a0 WFAN&#8217;s Mike Francesa. A torn UCL almost always leads to Tommy John surgery. The Mets will give Harvey a chance to rest his arm first before considering surgery. In addition to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[404,76],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-matt-harvey","9":"tag-new-york-mets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530","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=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}