{"id":18156,"date":"2014-05-04T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-activate-floyd-will-start-tuesday-for-injured-santana\/"},"modified":"2014-05-04T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T11:47:00","slug":"braves-activate-floyd-will-start-tuesday-for-injured-santana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-activate-floyd-will-start-tuesday-for-injured-santana\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves activate Floyd, will start Tuesday for injured Santana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves have activated pitcher Gavin Floyd off the 15-day disabled list and announced he will start Tuesday for injured hurler Ervin Santana.<\/p>\n<p>Santana has a bruised thumb and will have his scheduled start pushed back to next Saturday against the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd, meanwhile, will make his Braves debut against the St. Louis Cardinals. He is coming off Tommy John surgery performed last May and signed an incentive-laden deal with Atlanta in December.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old right-hander was 0-4 with a 5.18 ERA in five starts last season for the Chicago White Sox. He spent seven seasons in Chicago after pitching his first three years in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd owns a career record of 70-70 with a 4.48 ERA in 199 games, all but 12 as a starter.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves opened a roster spot by optioning lefty reliever Ian Thomas to Triple-A Gwinnett. Thomas was 1-1 with a 4.26 ERA in 10 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves have activated pitcher Gavin Floyd off the 15-day disabled list and announced he will start Tuesday for injured hurler Ervin Santana. Santana has a bruised thumb and will have his scheduled start pushed back to next Saturday against the Chicago Cubs. Floyd, meanwhile, will make his Braves debut [&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-18156","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\/18156","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=18156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}