{"id":7327,"date":"2014-04-18T14:42:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T18:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7327"},"modified":"2014-04-18T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T18:45:40","slug":"aroldis-chapman-cleared-to-throw-batting-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/18\/aroldis-chapman-cleared-to-throw-batting-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Aroldis Chapman cleared to throw batting practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/aroldischapman.jpg\" alt=\"aroldischapman\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1688\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/aroldischapman.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/aroldischapman-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nAroldis Chapman has been cleared to throw batting practice.<\/p>\n<p>Chapman recently threw off the mind for the first time and now will begin throwing to hitters. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Chapman had been cleared to throw live batting practice. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23reds&amp;src=hash\">#reds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Fay (@johnfayman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnfayman\/statuses\/457189368092835840\">April 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Reds have been hoping to have Chapman return to their team in mid-May after he took a liner to his head during spring training. Chapman had surgery to repair fractures in his left eye and nose.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?content_id=31593793&#038;topic_id=6479266&#038;width=600&#038;height=336&#038;property=mlb' width='600' height='336' frameborder='0'>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A two time All-Star, Chapman has turned into one of baseball\u2019s best closers over hte past two seasons. During that span he has appeared in 136 games, recorded 76 saves and posted a 2.00 ERA and a 0.92 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aroldis Chapman has been cleared to throw batting practice. Chapman recently threw off the mind for the first time and now will begin throwing to hitters. Chapman had been cleared to throw live batting practice. #reds &mdash; John Fay (@johnfayman) April 18, 2014 The Reds have been hoping to have Chapman return to their team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[237,384,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aroldis-chapman","9":"tag-cincinnati-reds","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327","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=7327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7331,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions\/7331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7327"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}