{"id":6633,"date":"2014-03-06T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6633"},"modified":"2014-03-06T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:56:08","slug":"bronson-arroyo-sidelined-with-bulging-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/06\/bronson-arroyo-sidelined-with-bulging-disk\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronson Arroyo sidelined with bulging disk"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6634\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6634\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/bronsonarroyodbacks.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/bronsonarroyodbacks.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/bronsonarroyodbacks-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Bronson Arroyo is sidelined with a bulging disk.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday the right hander underwent an MRI and was given an epidural Wednesday by the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He feels a lot better since he&#8217;s had that,&#8221; general manager Kevin Towers said via the teams <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20140305&amp;content_id=68740396&amp;notebook_id=68769892&amp;vkey=notebook_ari&amp;c_id=ari\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Arroyo dealt with a similar issue in 2011 and right now doctors are simply telling him to limit his activity in the next seven to 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They want it to calm down before he starts throwing again,&#8221; Towers said. &#8220;Of course, Arroyo doesn&#8217;t think it will take that long. Nothing they&#8217;re concerned about. It&#8217;s not a herniated disk. He did it running the other day, felt it running. It&#8217;s not anything worse than he had before. [Lee] thinks as long as they hit the spot right with the epidural, he should be fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Diamondbacks do not believe Arroyo is in danger of missing the start of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Bronson Arroyo is sidelined with a bulging disk. On Tuesday the right hander underwent an MRI and was given an epidural Wednesday by the team. &#8220;He feels a lot better since he&#8217;s had that,&#8221; general manager Kevin Towers said via the teams website. Arroyo dealt with a similar issue in 2011 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[125,521,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-bronson-arroyo","tag-front","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633","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=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6635,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions\/6635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}