{"id":6161,"date":"2014-01-31T19:13:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T00:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6161"},"modified":"2014-01-31T19:13:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T00:13:16","slug":"mark-appel-forced-to-undergo-appendectomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/31\/mark-appel-forced-to-undergo-appendectomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Appel forced to undergo appendectomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/markappel.jpg\" alt=\"markappel\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/markappel.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/markappel-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nHouston Astros prospect Mark Appel underwent an amergency appendectomy in Houston on Thursday according to MLB.com writer Brian McTaggart. <\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Appel should be ready to go by the time Spring Training rolls away. He was the No. 1 overall pick of the Astros last June.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Astros&amp;src=hash\">#Astros<\/a> pitcher Mark Appel is recovering well after undergoing an appendectomy on Thursday in Houston<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianmctaggart\/statuses\/429397742650003456\">January 31, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last season Appel made two minor league stops making 10 starts between Tri-City and Quad Cities. There&#8217;s a good chance he could be called to the big leagues by mid-season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Astros prospect Mark Appel underwent an amergency appendectomy in Houston on Thursday according to MLB.com writer Brian McTaggart. The 22-year-old Appel should be ready to go by the time Spring Training rolls away. He was the No. 1 overall pick of the Astros last June. #Astros pitcher Mark Appel is recovering well after undergoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[93,389,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-houston-astros","9":"tag-mark-appel","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161","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=6161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6161"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}