{"id":6650,"date":"2014-03-07T14:25:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T19:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6650"},"modified":"2014-03-07T14:25:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T19:25:32","slug":"luke-hochevar-to-have-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/07\/luke-hochevar-to-have-tommy-john-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Hochevar to have Tommy John surgery"},"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 will undergo Tommy John surgery preventing him from pitching this season.<\/p>\n<p>Hochevar, 30, was being given a chance to compete for a rotation spot this spring after making 58 appearances out of the bullpen last season posting a 1.92 ERA and a 0.82 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>Royals manager Ned Yost relayed the news on Friday about Hochevar who has a sprained ulnar collateral ligament. He will become a free agent at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Another player that the Royals will not have this season is Brad Penny.<\/p>\n<p>Penny signed a minor league deal with the Royals but has been released after a brutal spring in which he allowed seven runs and 13 hits over four innings of work. Penny is trying to comeback after sitting out all of 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Royals pitcher Luke Hochevar will undergo Tommy John surgery preventing him from pitching this season. Hochevar, 30, was being given a chance to compete for a rotation spot this spring after making 58 appearances out of the bullpen last season posting a 1.92 ERA and a 0.82 WHIP. Royals manager Ned Yost relayed [&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":{"0":"post-6650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-kansas-city-royals","10":"tag-luke-hochevar","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650","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=6650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6651,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650\/revisions\/6651"}],"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=6650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6650"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}