{"id":8393,"date":"2014-07-02T18:04:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T22:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8393"},"modified":"2014-07-02T18:04:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T22:04:38","slug":"cliff-lee-to-begin-minor-league-rehab-assignment-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/02\/cliff-lee-to-begin-minor-league-rehab-assignment-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliff Lee to begin minor league rehab assignment on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7392\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/clifflee.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"422\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/clifflee.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/clifflee-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nPhiladelphia Phillies pitcher Cliff Lee is nearing his return to the rotation.<\/p>\n<p>Lee has been cleared to make a minor league rehab start on Sunday for High-A Clearwater. The ace left hander has been out since mid-May with a strained elbow.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Cliff Lee will begin a rehab assignment Sunday with Class A Clearwater.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Todd Zolecki (@ToddZolecki) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ToddZolecki\/statuses\/484452547504398336\">July 2, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday the left hander threw 60 pitches in a three-inning simulated game and felt no ill effects a day later.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to going down Lee made 10 starts for the Phillies with a 3.18 ERA, 1.28 WHIP and a 61\/9 K\/BB ratio. <\/p>\n<p>Owed $25 million next season and at-least a $12.5 million buyout in 2016, the Phillies are going to have to lower expectations or eat money if a trade is to happen. Right now we would guess that the Phillies keep the 35-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cliff Lee is nearing his return to the rotation. Lee has been cleared to make a minor league rehab start on Sunday for High-A Clearwater. The ace left hander has been out since mid-May with a strained elbow. Cliff Lee will begin a rehab assignment Sunday with Class A Clearwater. &mdash; Todd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[259,109],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cliff-lee","9":"tag-philadelphia-phillies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393","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=8393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8394,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions\/8394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8393"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}