{"id":17501,"date":"2014-04-15T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blue-jays-place-izturis-on-dl\/"},"modified":"2014-04-15T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T15:48:00","slug":"blue-jays-place-izturis-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blue-jays-place-izturis-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays place Izturis on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays placed infielder Maicer Izturis on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with a torn lateral collateral ligament in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>The move is retroactive to April 14, one day after the veteran switch-hitter injured himself while tripping in the dugout during a game against the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards.<\/p>\n<p>The injury is expected to sideline Izturis between 4-to-6 months, though the shortstop has said he will seek a second opinion before opting to undergo surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Izturis had started nine of Toronto&#8217;s first 13 games at second base and batted .286 with one RBI and one stolen base. He had multiple hits in four of his first five contests of the season.<\/p>\n<p>To replace Izturis on the roster, Toronto selected the contract of infielder Munenori Kawasaki from Triple-A Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Kawasaki hit .229 with six doubles, five triples, one home run and 24 RBI over 96 games with the Blue Jays last season.<\/p>\n<p>Also Tuesday, the Blue Jays designated pitcher Marcus Walden for assignment and outrighted pitcher Jeremy Jeffress to Buffalo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays placed infielder Maicer Izturis on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with a torn lateral collateral ligament in his left knee. The move is retroactive to April 14, one day after the veteran switch-hitter injured himself while tripping in the dugout during a game against the Baltimore Orioles [&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":[116,115,114],"class_list":["post-17501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-blue-jays","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17501","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=17501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}