{"id":12627,"date":"2014-01-09T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/verlander-undergoes-successful-surgery\/"},"modified":"2014-01-09T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T15:26:00","slug":"verlander-undergoes-successful-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/verlander-undergoes-successful-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Verlander undergoes successful surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit, MI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Detroit Tigers announced that starter Justin Verlander underwent successful core muscle repair surgery on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Verlander will have rehabilitation for the next six weeks and will be re- evaluated at that time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We fully anticipate Justin to participate in spring training and be in a position to compete at the beginning of the 2014 season,&#8221; said Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old right-hander earned his fifth consecutive All-Star berth in 2013, but struggled to a 13-12 record and 3.46 earned run average in 218 1\/3 innings over 34 starts for the AL Central champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit, MI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Detroit Tigers announced that starter Justin Verlander underwent successful core muscle repair surgery on Thursday. Verlander will have rehabilitation for the next six weeks and will be re- evaluated at that time. &#8220;We fully anticipate Justin to participate in spring training and be in a position to compete at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,61,62],"class_list":["post-12627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}