{"id":7950,"date":"2014-05-26T11:01:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7950"},"modified":"2014-05-26T11:01:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T15:01:46","slug":"jonny-venters-feels-elbow-discomfort-during-bullpen-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/26\/jonny-venters-feels-elbow-discomfort-during-bullpen-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonny Venters feels elbow discomfort during bullpen session"},"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 \/>\nIf there was a timetable for the return of Jonny Venters it has passed. Venters is trying to come back from his second Tommy John surgery and has not pitched in a major league game since the 2012 season.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday the Atlanta Braves reliever threw 15 pitches off a mound but felt elbow discomfort. Right now the team and reliever are hoping that it is the result of scar tissue rather than something more serious.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Venters felt more discomfort after throwing approximately 15 pitches off the mound yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlbbowman\/statuses\/470931136232050688\">May 26, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Venters will try to throw again later this week. If the injury proves to be serious it could be the end of his season.<\/p>\n<p>In 230 career games he has a 2.23 ERA and a 1.24 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there was a timetable for the return of Jonny Venters it has passed. Venters is trying to come back from his second Tommy John surgery and has not pitched in a major league game since the 2012 season. On Sunday the Atlanta Braves reliever threw 15 pitches off a mound but felt elbow discomfort. [&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],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-jonny-venters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950","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=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7951,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions\/7951"}],"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=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}