{"id":6382,"date":"2014-02-14T15:26:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T20:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6382"},"modified":"2014-02-14T15:26:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T20:26:40","slug":"mat-latos-has-surgery-on-knee-to-repair-meniscus-cartilage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/14\/mat-latos-has-surgery-on-knee-to-repair-meniscus-cartilage\/","title":{"rendered":"Mat Latos has surgery on knee to repair meniscus cartilage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6383\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6383\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6383\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/matlatos.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/matlatos.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/matlatos-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mat Latos of the Cincinnati Reds underwent surgery on his left knee on Friday to repair torn meniscus cartilage.<\/p>\n<p>Latos was injured a few days ago when he slipped while long tossing. It will be ten days before he resumes throwing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He felt something and they looked at it,&#8221; Reds general manager Walt Jocketty said, via <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20140214&amp;content_id=67781742&amp;notebook_id=67782306&amp;vkey=notebook_cin&amp;c_id=cin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">MLB.com<\/a>. &#8220;He came in the next day and saw there was probably an issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The surgery on Latos&#8217; knee was performed by the Reds medical director Tim Kremchek.\u00a0A small flap of the cartilage was removed during the arthroscopic procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Previously Latos had bone chips removed from his right elbow at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Latos pitched 210 2\/3 innings last season finishing with a 14-7 record and a 3.16 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mat Latos of the Cincinnati Reds underwent surgery on his left knee on Friday to repair torn meniscus cartilage. Latos was injured a few days ago when he slipped while long tossing. It will be ten days before he resumes throwing. &#8220;He felt something and they looked at it,&#8221; Reds general manager Walt Jocketty said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[384,503,645,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cincinnati-reds","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mat-latos","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382","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=6382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6382"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}