{"id":8930,"date":"2014-08-24T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T17:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8930"},"modified":"2014-08-24T13:26:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T17:26:37","slug":"manny-machado-to-undergo-knee-surgery-on-wedneday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/24\/manny-machado-to-undergo-knee-surgery-on-wedneday\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Machado to undergo knee surgery on Wedneday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8927\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/mannymachado.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"393\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/mannymachado.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/mannymachado-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nManny Machado will undergo his season-ending knee surgery on Wednesday&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>While the Baltimore Orioles and their star third baseman will remain hopeful that he will be ready for the start of spring training that is far from a given. Machado&#8217;s time time will be eerily similar to his rehab from ACL surgery last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Machado will have surgery Wednesday in LA. Will leave team Tuesday and will be in LA for rehab for until about Sept 17-18. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/orioles?src=hash\">#orioles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eduardo A. Encina (@EddieInTheYard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EddieInTheYard\/statuses\/503579323425902594\">August 24, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Neal ElAttrache will perform the surgery on the right knee of Machado in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Machado suffered the injury on August 11 as he twisted his knee in the course of taking a swing at the plate. He will finish the season with a .278\/.324\/.431 line in 82 games with 12 home runs and 32 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles have also designated infielder Cord Phelps for assignment. He made just three at-bats during his time with the Orioles and is being moved to make a spot available for pitcher Miguel Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez will rejoin the Orioles with Ubaldo Jimenez&#8217;s recent trip to the bullpen. Gonzalez has appeared in 20 games &#8211; 19 starts &#8211; posting a 3.80 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manny Machado will undergo his season-ending knee surgery on Wednesday&#8217;s. While the Baltimore Orioles and their star third baseman will remain hopeful that he will be ready for the start of spring training that is far from a given. Machado&#8217;s time time will be eerily similar to his rehab from ACL surgery last year. Machado [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,478,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-manny-machado","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930","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=8930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8933,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930\/revisions\/8933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8930"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}