{"id":8077,"date":"2014-06-04T12:18:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T16:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8077"},"modified":"2014-06-04T12:18:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T16:18:40","slug":"braves-jonny-venters-threw-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/04\/braves-jonny-venters-threw-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves: Jonny Venters threw on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/jonnyventers.jpg\" alt=\"jonnyventers\" width=\"594\" height=\"426\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1529\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/jonnyventers.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/jonnyventers-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nRelief pitcher Jonny Venters did some light throwing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first activity for the Atlanta Braves reliever after he was shut down more than a week ago for pain caused by scar tissue in his surgically-repaired left elbow. <\/p>\n<p>The Braves have not placed any timetable on a return to the field for Venter. That he was able to throw on Tuesday is a good sign but he is still a ways away from contributing. Anything the Braves get out of Venters this season has to be considered a bonus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Jonny Venters threw lightly yesterday and today after taking 10 days off due to scar tissue in his surgically repaired elbow. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Braves&amp;src=hash\">#Braves<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David O&#39;Brien (@ajcbraves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajcbraves\/statuses\/474209798259757057\">June 4, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Venters missed the entire 2013 season. In 230 career games he owns a 2.23 ERA and a 1.24 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relief pitcher Jonny Venters did some light throwing on Tuesday. It was the first activity for the Atlanta Braves reliever after he was shut down more than a week ago for pain caused by scar tissue in his surgically-repaired left elbow. The Braves have not placed any timetable on a return to the field for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,219,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8077","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","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077","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=8077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8078,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions\/8078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8077"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}