{"id":4877,"date":"2013-10-02T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2013-10-02T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T17:54:14","slug":"braves-leave-dan-uggla-off-nlds-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/10\/02\/braves-leave-dan-uggla-off-nlds-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves leave Dan Uggla off NLDS roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4372\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4372\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/danuggla.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/danuggla.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/danuggla-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Atlanta Braves have left Dan Uggla off the roster for their National League Divisional Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott Johnson will play second base for the team during the NLDS.<\/p>\n<p>Uggla had a difficult season hitting just .179\/.309\/.362 over 136 games. He did display some power with 22 home runs but dealt with vision problems for much of the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPTONS: <\/strong><a title=\"Kate Upton joins Upton Brothers on cover of SI\u2019s MLB playoff preview\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/10\/02\/kate-upton-joins-upton-brothers-on-cover-of-sis-baseball-edition\/\">Kate joins BJ and Justin on SI cover<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In August Uggla underwent LASIK surgery hoping to help him at the plate but was unable to improve upon his return to the Braves. There is two years and $26 million remaining on Uggla&#8217;s contract with the Braves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves have left Dan Uggla off the roster for their National League Divisional Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Elliott Johnson will play second base for the team during the NLDS. Uggla had a difficult season hitting just .179\/.309\/.362 over 136 games. He did display some power with 22 home runs but dealt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,440],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-dan-uggla"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877","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=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}