{"id":4546,"date":"2013-08-28T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T15:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2013-08-28T11:47:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T15:47:29","slug":"blue-jays-josh-johnson-out-for-remainder-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/28\/blue-jays-josh-johnson-out-for-remainder-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays: Josh Johnson out for remainder of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2198\" alt=\"joshjohnson\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/joshjohnson.jpg\" width=\"673\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/joshjohnson.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/joshjohnson-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1377700881260_3695\">The Toronto Blue Jays have shut down right handed starting pitcher Josh Johnson for the remainder of the 2013 season.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1377700881260_3694\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1377700881260_3668\">Acquired in a trade with Miami prior to the season beginning the 29-year-old has dealt with forearm issues for much of the season. Johnson last pitched on Aug. 6 and had recently been told to rest for two weeks by Dr. James Andrews.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1377700881260_3671\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1377700881260_3670\">&#8220;We expected a lot, he expected a lot &#8212; it just didn&#8217;t happen,&#8221; Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said via <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20130827&amp;content_id=58649356&amp;notebook_id=58649358&amp;vkey=notebook_tor&amp;c_id=tor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">MLB.com<\/a>. &#8220;He had the best spring of our staff; he looked better than most guys we faced on other teams. Who knows [why it didn&#8217;t work]? Nobody knows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1377700881260_3672\">While Johnson does not appear to need Tommy John surgery he will be done for the rest of the season. It is a disappointing turn of events for Johnson who will head to free agency coming off injury concerns and a 6.20 ERA in 16 starts.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1377700881260_3673\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1377700881260_3674\">The Blue Jays are doubtful to make a qualifying offer to Johnson which would cost the club $14 million if accepted.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays have shut down right handed starting pitcher Josh Johnson for the remainder of the 2013 season. Acquired in a trade with Miami prior to the season beginning the 29-year-old has dealt with forearm issues for much of the season. Johnson last pitched on Aug. 6 and had recently been told to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-4546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}