{"id":7047,"date":"2014-04-01T19:37:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T23:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7047"},"modified":"2014-04-01T19:37:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T23:37:48","slug":"mike-minor-gavin-floyd-to-make-minor-league-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/01\/mike-minor-gavin-floyd-to-make-minor-league-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Minor, Gavin Floyd to make minor league starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/mikeminor.jpg\" alt=\"mikeminor\" width=\"594\" height=\"422\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/mikeminor.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/mikeminor-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta Braves will have starting pitchers Mike Minor and Gavin Floyd make re-hab starts on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A season after becoming a force in the Braves rotation, Minor dealt with shoulder soreness this spring. He threw 1 1\/3 innings this weekend against a minor league squad and will make a start for Double-A Mississippi this week. The Braves are hopeful to have Minor return to their rotation by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Braves&amp;src=hash\">#Braves<\/a> Minor and Floyd will make rehab starts Thursday in openers for Double-A Miss. and Triple-A Gwinnett, respectively<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David O&#39;Brien (@ajcbraves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajcbraves\/statuses\/451125828647014401\">April 1, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While Minor is at Double-A, the Braves will have Gavin Floyd pitch at Triple-A Gwinnett. Floyd is still working his way back from Tommy John surgery a season ago. The Braves currently are hopeful that he can join their rotation sometime in May. <\/p>\n<p>The Braves signed Floyd to a one-year deal worth $4 million this offseason. His signing could prove to be valuable as the Braves lost Brandon Beachy and Kris Medlen to Tommy John surgery during Spring Training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves will have starting pitchers Mike Minor and Gavin Floyd make re-hab starts on Thursday. A season after becoming a force in the Braves rotation, Minor dealt with shoulder soreness this spring. He threw 1 1\/3 innings this weekend against a minor league squad and will make a start for Double-A Mississippi this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,503,309,654,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-gavin-floyd","11":"tag-mike-minor","12":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047","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=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7048,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions\/7048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}