{"id":7910,"date":"2014-05-24T15:02:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7910"},"modified":"2014-05-24T15:02:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T19:02:09","slug":"jonny-venters-to-throw-off-mound-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/24\/jonny-venters-to-throw-off-mound-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonny Venters to throw off mound on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/jonnyventers.jpg\" alt=\"jonnyventers\" width=\"1024\" height=\"742\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1863\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/jonnyventers.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/jonnyventers-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/jonnyventers-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nAtlanta Braves relief pitcher Jonny Venters will throw off the mound for the first time on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The elbow soreness Venters had been experiencing is gone and ideally the left hander will began throwing to batters sometime next week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Jonny Venters plans to throw off the mound tomorrow. Hopes to start live BPs at some point next week. Says elbow soreness is gone. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Braves&amp;src=hash\">#Braves<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin McAlpin (@KevinMcAlpin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinMcAlpin\/statuses\/470269552837025792\">May 24, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While there is no timetable for Venters return any contributions he gives the Braves this season has to be considered a plus.<\/p>\n<p>Venters, 29, last pitched in 2012. In 230 career games he has a 2.23 ERA and a 1.24 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Braves relief pitcher Jonny Venters will throw off the mound for the first time on Sunday. The elbow soreness Venters had been experiencing is gone and ideally the left hander will began throwing to batters sometime next week. Jonny Venters plans to throw off the mound tomorrow. Hopes to start live BPs at some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,219,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-7910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-jonny-venters","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910","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=7910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7911,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions\/7911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7910"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}