{"id":8523,"date":"2014-07-13T16:02:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T20:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8523"},"modified":"2014-07-13T16:02:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T20:02:24","slug":"braves-suspend-dan-uggla-for-being-tardy-to-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/13\/braves-suspend-dan-uggla-for-being-tardy-to-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves suspend Dan Uggla for being tardy to game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4372\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/danuggla.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4372\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/danuggla.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/danuggla-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Atlanta Braves have suspended second baseman Dan Uggla for one game without pay. That is just over $80,000 for those doing the math at home.<\/p>\n<p>Uggla&#8217;s suspension comes after he was extremely tardy.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves have not been using Uggla much as he has just 18 trips to the plate since the end of May. The veteran second baseman is hitting just\u00a0.162\/.241\/.331 on the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Was told by couple of people familiar with situation that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Braves?src=hash\">#Braves<\/a> Uggla showed up about an hour before Saturday&#39;s 3:05 p.m. game.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David O&#39;Brien (@ajcbraves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajcbraves\/statuses\/488369741463969792\">July 13, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nUggla is owed the remaining of his $13 million salary this season plus another $13 million in 2015 which is why he remains on the Braves roster.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves are expected to welcome Uggla back to the roster before Friday&#8217;s game against Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves have suspended second baseman Dan Uggla for one game without pay. That is just over $80,000 for those doing the math at home. Uggla&#8217;s suspension comes after he was extremely tardy. The Braves have not been using Uggla much as he has just 18 trips to the plate since the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523","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=8523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8524,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions\/8524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8523"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}