{"id":8486,"date":"2014-07-09T19:07:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T23:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8486"},"modified":"2014-07-09T19:07:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T23:07:32","slug":"koji-uehara-named-to-al-all-star-roster-in-place-of-masahiro-tanaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/09\/koji-uehara-named-to-al-all-star-roster-in-place-of-masahiro-tanaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Koji Uehara named to AL All-Star roster in place of Masahiro Tanaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/kojiuehara.jpg\" alt=\"kojiuehara\" width=\"594\" height=\"423\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8487\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/kojiuehara.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/kojiuehara-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nWith Masahiro Tanaka going to the disabled list, the American League needed another arm for their All-Star squad.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Koji Uehara who is having another strong season as the closer of the Boston Red Sox. In 41 2\/3 innings of work this season Uehara has a 1.30 ERA, 0.74 WHIP and 52\/6 K\/BB ratio. This is his first selection to the All-Star game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedSox\">@RedSox<\/a> closer Koji Uehara will replace Masahiro Tanaka on the American League <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ASG?src=hash\">#ASG<\/a> roster.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #FinalVote (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/statuses\/486995217438867456\">July 9, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While the selection of Uehara to the roster has been met with a mix of positive and negative reaction on social media, MLB (and Red Sox manager John Farrell) was not about to give the roster spot to one of the AL&#8217;s Final Vote contestants before the voting period ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Masahiro Tanaka going to the disabled list, the American League needed another arm for their All-Star squad. Enter Koji Uehara who is having another strong season as the closer of the Boston Red Sox. In 41 2\/3 innings of work this season Uehara has a 1.30 ERA, 0.74 WHIP and 52\/6 K\/BB ratio. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,806,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-boston-red-sox","9":"tag-koji-uehara","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486","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=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8488,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions\/8488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}