{"id":6620,"date":"2014-03-05T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T16:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6620"},"modified":"2014-03-05T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T16:30:56","slug":"luke-hochevar-shut-down-with-sprained-ucl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/05\/luke-hochevar-shut-down-with-sprained-ucl\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Hochevar shut down with sprained UCL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6621\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6621\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/lukehochevar.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6621\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/lukehochevar.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/lukehochevar-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nKansas City Royals pitcher Luke Hochevar has been shut down for the next two weeks with what the team has labed a sprained ulnar collateral ligament.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals are hoping that Hochevar will avoid Tommy John surgery and return by the end of May. <\/p>\n<p>Hochevar had a chance to crack the Royals rotation this spring but now that spot will go elsewhere.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Luke Hochevar has a sprained UCL. He&#39;ll be shut down for at least two weeks. The team hopes he returns by the end of May.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McCulloughStar\/statuses\/441236370439168000\">March 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last season Hochevar pitched solely out of the bullpen. In 58 games for the Royals he had two saves, nine holds, a 1.92 ERA and a  0.82 WHIP. The Royals have solid depth in their bullpen which is why they were giving him a chance to compete for a rotation spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Royals pitcher Luke Hochevar has been shut down for the next two weeks with what the team has labed a sprained ulnar collateral ligament. The Royals are hoping that Hochevar will avoid Tommy John surgery and return by the end of May. Hochevar had a chance to crack the Royals rotation this spring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,137,664,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-luke-hochevar","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620","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=6620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6622,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620\/revisions\/6622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6620"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}