{"id":6230,"date":"2014-02-05T11:13:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6230"},"modified":"2014-02-05T11:13:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:13:02","slug":"cory-luebke-to-miss-2014-season-to-undergo-second-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/05\/cory-luebke-to-miss-2014-season-to-undergo-second-tommy-john-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Luebke to miss 2014 season to undergo second Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5793\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5793\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/CoryLuebke.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/CoryLuebke.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/CoryLuebke-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The San Diego Padres will be without left handed pitcher Cory Luebke in 2014. Luebke will require a second Tommy John surgery on his left elbow.<\/p>\n<p>An MRI last Friday revealed a re-tear of Luebke&#8217;s ulnar collateral ligament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel bad for him \u2026 from 2011 through the first part of 2012, he was certainly on his way,&#8221; said Padres general manager Josh Byrnes. &#8220;This is a real setback. There&#8217;s been a lot of missed time. Hopefully in a year or so, he can get back to being Cory Luebke.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This whole thing has been a mystery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luebke was ready to compete for a rotation spot this spring. Now the 28-year-old will miss another season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My gut feeling through the rehab process was this didn&#8217;t seem right. And when we did the MRI, it was pretty clear what was going on.&#8221; said Luebke.<\/p>\n<p>Luebke is 10-12 with a 3.25 ERA in 55 big league games, including 25 starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Padres will be without left handed pitcher Cory Luebke in 2014. Luebke will require a second Tommy John surgery on his left elbow. An MRI last Friday revealed a re-tear of Luebke&#8217;s ulnar collateral ligament. &#8220;I feel bad for him \u2026 from 2011 through the first part of 2012, he was certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[588,355],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cory-luebke","9":"tag-san-diego-padres"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230","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=6230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6230"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}