{"id":7610,"date":"2014-05-07T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7610"},"modified":"2014-05-07T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T20:00:11","slug":"matt-wieters-does-not-need-surgery-on-elbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/07\/matt-wieters-does-not-need-surgery-on-elbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Wieters does not need surgery on elbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6258\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6258\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/wieters.jpg\" alt=\"GI\" width=\"594\" height=\"416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6258\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/wieters.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/wieters-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GI<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Baltimore Orioles got some good news on Wednesday after it was revealed that catcher Matt Wieters did not require surgery on his right elbow.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dan Connolly of the Baltimore Sun, Wieters is not considered a candidate for surgery after having his MRI examined by Dr. James Andrews.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Matt Wieters elbow MRI has been reviewed by Dr. James Andrews and he&#39;s is not considered a candidate for surgery, according to a source<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Connolly (@danconnollysun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danconnollysun\/statuses\/464097885240295424\">May 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While Wieters may not be catching for a few days the Orioles can keep him in their lineup as the DH. Since experiencing the elbow issues Wieters has gone on a hot streak hitting .371 in 35 at-bats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Orioles got some good news on Wednesday after it was revealed that catcher Matt Wieters did not require surgery on his right elbow. According to Dan Connolly of the Baltimore Sun, Wieters is not considered a candidate for surgery after having his MRI examined by Dr. James Andrews. Matt Wieters elbow MRI has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,503,631],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-7610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-front","tag-matt-wieters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610","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=7610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7611,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions\/7611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}