{"id":7705,"date":"2014-05-14T14:14:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T18:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7705"},"modified":"2014-05-14T14:14:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T18:14:34","slug":"braves-change-plans-keep-alex-wood-in-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/14\/braves-change-plans-keep-alex-wood-in-bullpen\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves change plans, keep Alex Wood in bullpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7208\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/alexwood.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"457\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7208\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/alexwood.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/alexwood-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Atlanta Braves had listed Alex Wood as their probable pitcher for Saturday but things have changed.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than use a six-man rotation the Braves will go back to the traditonal five-man rotation, in part due to the absence of Jordan Walden in their pen.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than start Wood on Saturday, the Braves have moved Aaron Harang up and will send Gavin Floyd to the mound.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Braves&amp;src=hash\">#Braves<\/a> change in plans &#8212; Wood staying in pen this weekend and Harang moves up to start Saturday, Floyd Sunday<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David O&#39;Brien (@ajcbraves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajcbraves\/statuses\/466631180687654912\">May 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While the news may be somewhat disappointing the Braves have been trying to find ways to limit the number of innings on Wood&#8217;s arm. With Harang and Floyd both pitching well thus far the team is content with riding them out until they struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Wood has appeared in nine games, seven of which have been starts, this season posting a 2.87 ERA and a 1.19 WHIP in 47 innings of work. A season ago the Braves used Wood in 31 games, 11 starts, for a total of 77 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves had listed Alex Wood as their probable pitcher for Saturday but things have changed. Rather than use a six-man rotation the Braves will go back to the traditonal five-man rotation, in part due to the absence of Jordan Walden in their pen. Rather than start Wood on Saturday, the Braves have moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[349,28,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-7705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-alex-wood","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-front","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705","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=7705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7707,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705\/revisions\/7707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7705"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}