{"id":14665,"date":"2014-02-18T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/phillies-reliever-adams-to-start-14-on-dl\/"},"modified":"2014-02-18T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T18:22:00","slug":"phillies-reliever-adams-to-start-14-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/phillies-reliever-adams-to-start-14-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies reliever Adams to start &#8217;14 on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clearwater, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Philadelphia Phillies reliever Mike Adams is expected to start the 2014 season on the disabled list.<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Tuesday that the 35-year-old, who suffered through an injury-plagued first season with the Phils in 2013, won&#8217;t be healthy enough to join the club when it travels north.<\/p>\n<p>Adams, who will be paid $7 million for the upcoming season, told the paper he doesn&#8217;t expect to throw his first bullpen session until late next week and has not currently set a timetable for his return to the team.<\/p>\n<p>Adams will see a $6 million vesting option kick in for 2015 if he is able to pitch at least 60 innings this year, something which he hasn&#8217;t done since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Signed by a free agent by the Brewers in 2001, Adams made his MLB debut for that same franchise in 2004. He finished 1-4 with a 3.96 earned run average over just 25 innings in 28 appearances for Philadelphia a season ago.<\/p>\n<p>A veteran of 386 big league games, Adams has gone 19-19 with a 2.39 ERA for the Brewers, Padres, Rangers and Phillies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearwater, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Philadelphia Phillies reliever Mike Adams is expected to start the 2014 season on the disabled list. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Tuesday that the 35-year-old, who suffered through an injury-plagued first season with the Phils in 2013, won&#8217;t be healthy enough to join the club when it travels north. Adams, who will [&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":[64,194,195],"class_list":["post-14665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14665","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=14665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}