{"id":18693,"date":"2014-05-13T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-marlins-fernandez-has-torn-ucl\/"},"modified":"2014-05-13T23:10:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T23:10:06","slug":"report-marlins-fernandez-has-torn-ucl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-marlins-fernandez-has-torn-ucl\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Marlins&#8217; Fernandez has torn UCL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Miami Marlins ace Jose Fernandez has been diagnosed with a tear in the ulnar collateral ligament of his pitching arm and needs season- ending surgery, according to CBSSports.com.<\/p>\n<p>The report says the 21-year-old right-hander will get a second opinion from the Marlins team doctor to see if he confirms the original diagnosis by physician Neal ElAttrache.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez, the reigning National League Rookie of the Year, was placed on the 15-day disabled list Monday with a sprained right elbow.<\/p>\n<p>In eight starts this season, Fernandez has gone 4-2 with a 2.44 earned run average and racked up 70 strikeouts in just 51 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez endured a rough outing in San Diego on Friday, as he was tagged for six runs &#8212; five earned &#8212; in five innings and saw a noticeable decrease in velocity on his fastball towards the end of his start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Miami Marlins ace Jose Fernandez has been diagnosed with a tear in the ulnar collateral ligament of his pitching arm and needs season- ending surgery, according to CBSSports.com. The report says the 21-year-old right-hander will get a second opinion from the Marlins team doctor to see if he confirms the original diagnosis by [&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":[197,196,198],"class_list":["post-18693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-florida","tag-florida-marlins","tag-marlins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18693","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=18693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18706,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18693\/revisions\/18706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}