{"id":16380,"date":"2014-03-19T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-medlen-has-tommy-john-surgery\/"},"modified":"2014-03-19T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T15:40:26","slug":"braves-medlen-has-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-medlen-has-tommy-john-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves&#8217; Medlen has Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Buena Vista, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Atlanta Braves pitcher Kris Medlen underwent Tommy John surgery on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the second such procedure in the right-hander&#8217;s career. Noted sports surgeon Dr. James Andrews performed the original Tommy John surgery on Medlen in Aug. 2010 and reconstructed the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow again.<\/p>\n<p>Medlen, 28, was 15-12 with a 3.11 earned run average in 31 starts and one relief appearance for the Braves last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Buena Vista, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Atlanta Braves pitcher Kris Medlen underwent Tommy John surgery on Tuesday. It&#8217;s the second such procedure in the right-hander&#8217;s career. Noted sports surgeon Dr. James Andrews performed the original Tommy John surgery on Medlen in Aug. 2010 and reconstructed the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow again. Medlen, [&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":[18,17,19],"class_list":["post-16380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-braves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16380","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=16380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16384,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16380\/revisions\/16384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}