{"id":9157,"date":"2014-10-09T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9157"},"modified":"2014-10-09T11:45:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T15:45:03","slug":"jeremy-hefner-to-undergo-second-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/10\/09\/jeremy-hefner-to-undergo-second-tommy-john-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Hefner to undergo second Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/IMG_1248.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1248.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nNew York Mets pitcher Jeremy Hefner will undergo Tommy John surgery for the second time in 14 months. <\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old will see Dr. James Andrews who is scheduled to perform the procedure Thursday morning in Florida. <\/p>\n<p>Hefner re-tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow during a rehab game August 6 at High-A St. Lucie.  He has not appeared in a major league game since 2012 and can be ruled out for all of 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Mets pitcher Jeremy Hefner will undergo Tommy John surgery for the second time in 14 months. The 28-year-old will see Dr. James Andrews who is scheduled to perform the procedure Thursday morning in Florida. Hefner re-tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow during a rehab game August 6 at High-A St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9157","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\/9157","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=9157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9158,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157\/revisions\/9158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9157"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}