{"id":16905,"date":"2014-03-30T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rays-place-hellickson-on-dl\/"},"modified":"2014-03-30T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T15:53:00","slug":"rays-place-hellickson-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rays-place-hellickson-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays place Hellickson on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Rays placed pitchers Jeremy Hellickson and Juan Carlos Oviedo and infielder Tim Beckham on the 15- day disabled list to start the season.<\/p>\n<p>Hellickson is recovering from arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow. The 26- year-old has spent all four of his major league seasons with the Rays, going 39-31 with a 3.70 ERA and 409 strikeouts through 102 games (95 starts).<\/p>\n<p>Oviedo, formerly Leo Nunez, is recovering Tommy John surgery on his right elbow. He has gone 18-20 with a 4.34 ERA with 288 strikeouts and 92 saves in 317 games including six starts.<\/p>\n<p>The Dominican Republic native hasn&#8217;t appeared in a major league game since Sept. 21, 2011 after admitting to using forged documents in order to sign a major league contract and was placed on Major League Baseball&#8217;s restricted list for the remainder of that season. He played seven seasons between the Kansas City Royals and the Marlins.<\/p>\n<p>Beckham has only played five major league games with the Rays and is recovering from ACL surgery on his right knee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Rays placed pitchers Jeremy Hellickson and Juan Carlos Oviedo and infielder Tim Beckham on the 15- day disabled list to start the season. Hellickson is recovering from arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow. The 26- year-old has spent all four of his major league seasons with 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":[191,67,190],"class_list":["post-16905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-rays","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905","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=16905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}