{"id":8769,"date":"2014-08-07T00:12:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T04:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2014-08-07T00:12:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T04:12:54","slug":"cliff-lee-will-not-need-surgery-on-left-elbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/07\/cliff-lee-will-not-need-surgery-on-left-elbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliff Lee will not need surgery on left elbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7392\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7392\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/clifflee.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/clifflee.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/clifflee-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cliff Lee will not need surgery on his left elbow.<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Phillies remain hopeful that the 35-year-old Lee will be ready for the start of spring training.<\/p>\n<p>He received a platelet-rich plasma injection in his left elbow and will be re-evaluated in two weeks reports Phillies writer <a href=\"http:\/\/zozone.mlblogs.com\/2014\/08\/06\/no-surgery-required-for-lee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Todd Zolecki<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope to get him into a throwing program in October or November,&#8221; Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said. &#8220;But right now he needs to rest.&#8221; The Phillies are hopeful Lee will be ready by spring training next year.<\/p>\n<p>Lee is owed at least $37.5 million following this season, which includes his $25 million salary for 2015, plus a $12.5 million buyout on a 2016 club option.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 season of Lee ends with a 3.65 ERA and a 1.38 WHIP in 13 starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cliff Lee will not need surgery on his left elbow. The Philadelphia Phillies remain hopeful that the 35-year-old Lee will be ready for the start of spring training. He received a platelet-rich plasma injection in his left elbow and will be re-evaluated in two weeks reports Phillies writer Todd Zolecki. &#8220;We hope to get him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[259,503,501,109],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cliff-lee","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-philadelphia-phillies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769","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=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8770,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions\/8770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}