{"id":8745,"date":"2014-08-06T10:48:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8745"},"modified":"2014-08-06T10:48:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:48:58","slug":"cardinals-eye-mid-september-return-to-michael-wacha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/06\/cardinals-eye-mid-september-return-to-michael-wacha\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals eye mid-September return to Michael Wacha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7885\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/michaelwacha.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7885\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/michaelwacha.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/michaelwacha-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe St. Louis Cardinals are reportedly targeting mid-September for the return of staring pitcher Michael Wacha reports Derrick Goold of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/sports\/baseball\/professional\/wacha-reassured-after-light-throwing\/article_c1961419-1df0-5edd-b93a-fdc86d0bdf2a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wacha began light throwing on Tuesday after an MRI showed that his right shoulder had began to heal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t feel any pain in the shoulder or anything like that,\u201d the young righty said after some light tosses. \u201cIt definitely feels strong. It feels alive, really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ideally the Cardinals would bring Wacha back as a starter but a trip to the bullpen can not be ruled out at this point.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Wacha made 15 starts before the injury posting a 2.79 ERA and a 1.12 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals are reportedly targeting mid-September for the return of staring pitcher Michael Wacha reports Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Wacha began light throwing on Tuesday after an MRI showed that his right shoulder had began to heal. \u201cI don\u2019t feel any pain in the shoulder or anything like that,\u201d the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[348,501,29],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-michael-wacha","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745","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=8745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8746,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions\/8746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8745"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}