{"id":16868,"date":"2014-03-29T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-reliever-gearrin-might-need-tommy-john-surgery\/"},"modified":"2014-03-29T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T14:48:00","slug":"braves-reliever-gearrin-might-need-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-reliever-gearrin-might-need-tommy-john-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves reliever Gearrin might need Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rome, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Atlanta Braves pitcher Cory Gearrin could be headed for Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Braves general manager Frank Wren said Gearrin has &#8220;ligament involvement&#8221; in his right elbow and will visit orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews for a second opinion next week.<\/p>\n<p>Gearrin left Tuesday&#8217;s Grapefruit League game with a right elbow injury. He met with lead team orthopedist Dr. Xavier Duralde on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta will recall pitcher Ryan Buchter back from Triple-A Gwinnett and place Gearrin on the 15-day disabled list.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves have already lost starters Kris Medlen and Brandon Beachy to Tommy John surgery this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Gearrin went 2-1 with a 3.77 ERA in 37 relief appearances with the Braves last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Atlanta Braves pitcher Cory Gearrin could be headed for Tommy John surgery. Braves general manager Frank Wren said Gearrin has &#8220;ligament involvement&#8221; in his right elbow and will visit orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews for a second opinion next week. Gearrin left Tuesday&#8217;s Grapefruit League game with a right elbow injury. [&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-16868","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\/16868","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=16868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}