{"id":7527,"date":"2014-04-29T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7527"},"modified":"2014-04-29T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T20:59:00","slug":"mike-minor-to-make-season-debut-friday-david-hale-to-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/29\/mike-minor-to-make-season-debut-friday-david-hale-to-bullpen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Minor to make season debut Friday, David Hale to bullpen"},"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>On Friday the Atlanta Braves will have Mike Minor on the mound for his season debut.<\/p>\n<p>Minor got a late start on spring training due to shoulder soreness and has been making rehab starts at the Double-A level. Now the Braves are ready for Minor to make his 2014 debut and he will do so against the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n<p>A season ago Minor made 32 starts and posted a 13-9 record, 3.21 ERA and a 1.09 WHIP.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>When Minor returns on Friday, Hale is expected to go to the pen.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlbbowman\/statuses\/461243702464512000\">April 29, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In order to make room for Minor, the Braves will send David Hale to the bullpen. It is a tough break for Hale who owed a 2.31 ERA in four starts. He will now occupy a spot in long relief and await a chance to make some spot starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday the Atlanta Braves will have Mike Minor on the mound for his season debut. Minor got a late start on spring training due to shoulder soreness and has been making rehab starts at the Double-A level. Now the Braves are ready for Minor to make his 2014 debut and he will do so [&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":[28,503,654,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-7527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-front","tag-mike-minor","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527","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=7527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7528,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527\/revisions\/7528"}],"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=7527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7527"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}