{"id":7981,"date":"2014-05-27T12:24:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T16:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7981"},"modified":"2014-05-27T12:24:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T16:24:26","slug":"royals-prospect-kyle-zimmer-shut-down-with-lat-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/27\/royals-prospect-kyle-zimmer-shut-down-with-lat-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals prospect Kyle Zimmer shut down with lat strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/kylezimmer.jpg\" alt=\"kylezimmer\" width=\"620\" height=\"490\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/kylezimmer.jpg 620w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/kylezimmer-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><br \/>\nKansas City Royals prospect Kyle Zimmer has been shut down for the next 6-8 weeks following a lat strain.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmer, 22, had been limited to extended spring training thus far and now will likely be out for all of June and part of July.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Kyle Zimmer has been shut down due to a lat strain. He won&#39;t play catch for six to eight weeks. Cripes.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McCulloughStar\/statuses\/471308903347937282\">May 27, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3 Zimmer made 22 starts a season ago in the minors compiling a 4.32  ERA and a  1.17 WHIP between High-A Wilmington and Double-A Northwest Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p>He was the fifth overall pick in the 2012 Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Royals prospect Kyle Zimmer has been shut down for the next 6-8 weeks following a lat strain. Zimmer, 22, had been limited to extended spring training thus far and now will likely be out for all of June and part of July. Kyle Zimmer has been shut down due to a lat strain. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[137,768,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-kansas-city-royals","9":"tag-kyle-zimmer","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981","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=7981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7983,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981\/revisions\/7983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7981"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}