{"id":8145,"date":"2014-06-09T15:32:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T19:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8145"},"modified":"2014-06-09T15:33:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T19:33:28","slug":"matt-wieters-could-need-elbow-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/09\/matt-wieters-could-need-elbow-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Wieters could need elbow surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6258\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6258\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/wieters.jpg\" alt=\"GI\" width=\"594\" height=\"416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/wieters.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/wieters-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GI<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nMatt Wieters has not played since May 10 and it is possible that the catcher may not play again in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>FOX Sports&#8217; Ken Rosenthal has spoken to two sources who say that Wieters&#8217; throwing program is not going well and elbow surgery &#8220;looks increasingly likely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another source told Rosenthal that it was too early to make any decisions and that Wieters has &#8220;good days and bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>&#8230;a third source says it is too early to make a determination, that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Orioles&amp;src=hash\">#Orioles<\/a>&#39; Wieters is having good days and bad.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/476078155040821250\">June 9, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Orioles may hold off on making a decision about surgery as Wieters would be a big improvement over Caleb Joseph and Nick Hundley who have been serving behind the plate in his absence.<\/p>\n<p>In 26 games Wieters was hitting .308\/.339\/.500 with five home runs and 18 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Wieters has not played since May 10 and it is possible that the catcher may not play again in 2014. FOX Sports&#8217; Ken Rosenthal has spoken to two sources who say that Wieters&#8217; throwing program is not going well and elbow surgery &#8220;looks increasingly likely.&#8221; Another source told Rosenthal that it was too early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,631,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-matt-wieters","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145","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=8145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8147,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions\/8147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8145"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}