{"id":7600,"date":"2014-05-07T10:19:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T14:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7600"},"modified":"2014-05-07T10:19:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T14:19:44","slug":"joe-mauer-days-away-from-return-to-twins-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/07\/joe-mauer-days-away-from-return-to-twins-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Mauer days away from return to Twins lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7601\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7601\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/joemauer.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/joemauer.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/joemauer-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Joe Mauer is on the mend but do not expect to see the first baseman back in the lineup for the Minnesota Twins for a few more days.<\/p>\n<p>Days after suffering back spasms Mauer told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/sports\/twins\/258220761.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Star Tribune<\/a> that \u00a0\u201cThe last couple days have been pretty brutal. So I\u2019m starting to move around a little better, which is good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before Mauer returns to the field he wants to get some batting practice swings in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">\u201cI\u2019m starting to feel little bit better,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s starting to release a little bit. If I come in [Wednesday] feeling good, I might be able to get out on the field and do some baseball stuff, which would be good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twins\u00a0manager Ron Gardenhire offered up a similar assessment of Mauer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s feeling better but still not ready,\u201d Gardenhire said. \u201cWhen I walked into the trainer\u2019s room, he was still in the whirlpool and is doing all the treatment you\u2019re supposed to do. Day-to-day, that\u2019s basically where we are with this thing until it lightens up on him and he is able to go and do everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Mauer is on the mend but do not expect to see the first baseman back in the lineup for the Minnesota Twins for a few more days. Days after suffering back spasms Mauer told the Star Tribune that \u00a0\u201cThe last couple days have been pretty brutal. So I\u2019m starting to move around a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,515,134,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-7600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-joe-mauer","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600","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=7600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7602,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions\/7602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7600"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}