{"id":47,"date":"2012-10-02T20:31:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T00:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=47"},"modified":"2012-10-02T20:31:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T00:31:15","slug":"ben-sheets-to-retire-following-wednesday-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/10\/02\/ben-sheets-to-retire-following-wednesday-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Sheets to retire following Wednesday start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/Ben-Sheets-ends-2-year-absence-with-win-IU1S67O6-x-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-48\" title=\"Ben-Sheets-ends-2-year-absence-with-win-IU1S67O6-x-large\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/Ben-Sheets-ends-2-year-absence-with-win-IU1S67O6-x-large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/Ben-Sheets-ends-2-year-absence-with-win-IU1S67O6-x-large.jpg 490w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/Ben-Sheets-ends-2-year-absence-with-win-IU1S67O6-x-large-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>Wednesday will be a finale in more then one way.<\/p>\n<p>The career of Been Sheets will end following a start on Wednesday. The talented but injury prone pitcher will take the mound against the Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt I&#8217;m not playing again,&#8221; Sheets said. &#8220;No matter what, there is not enough help or money to pull me out of this one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sheets had similar thoughts when he underwent Tommy John surgery midway through the 2010 season. He had undergone a major surgical procedure to repair a torn flexor tendon in his right elbow two years earlier. His assumption was that his career was complete.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves signed Sheets in July. After going 4-1 with a 1.41 ERA in his first five starts he then began to be bothered by his shoulder. He has not pitched since late August.<\/p>\n<p>At first Sheets had said he planned to come back and would accept a role in the bullpen if needed but his arm strength never returned and now after his 250th start he will retire.<\/p>\n<p>Sheets will attempt to throw two innings in Wednesdays game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday will be a finale in more then one way. The career of Been Sheets will end following a start on Wednesday. The talented but injury prone pitcher will take the mound against the Pirates. &#8220;I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt I&#8217;m not playing again,&#8221; Sheets said. &#8220;No matter what, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[17],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-47","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ben-sheets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}