{"id":8500,"date":"2014-07-10T21:27:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T01:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8500"},"modified":"2014-07-10T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T01:28:08","slug":"yankees-lose-masahiro-tanaka-for-at-least-six-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/10\/yankees-lose-masahiro-tanaka-for-at-least-six-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees lose Masahiro Tanaka for at-least six weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/masahirotanaka.jpg\" alt=\"masahirotanaka\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/masahirotanaka.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/masahirotanaka-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nNew York Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka will miss at-least the next six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Thursday, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said that the Yankees star free-agent signing from last winter would attempt non-surgical rehab as a way to return to the field this season from a partially torn UCL.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Masahiro Tanaka diagnosed w\/ partially torn ligament in throwing arm. Rehab would take 6 weeks, Tommy John surgery possible if rehab fails.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/statuses\/487403183531368449\">July 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Should Tanaka&#8217;s rehab fail he will undergo Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Three different doctors have diagnosed the Japanese right hander with a partially torn ligament in his throwing arm. He was placed on the 15-day disabled list on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of Tanaka&#8217;s injury he had a league high 12 wins and a 2.51 ERA. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka will miss at-least the next six weeks. Speaking on Thursday, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said that the Yankees star free-agent signing from last winter would attempt non-surgical rehab as a way to return to the field this season from a partially torn UCL. Masahiro Tanaka diagnosed w\/ partially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,458,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-masahiro-tanaka","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500","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=8500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8503,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500\/revisions\/8503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8500"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}