{"id":19721,"date":"2014-06-16T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/orioles-wieters-to-have-tommy-john-surgery\/"},"modified":"2014-06-17T00:10:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T00:10:14","slug":"orioles-wieters-to-have-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/orioles-wieters-to-have-tommy-john-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles&#8217; Wieters to have Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore, MD (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Baltimore Orioles catcher Matt Wieters is scheduled to have reconstructive surgery Tuesday to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow.<\/p>\n<p>Wieters is expected to need nine months of recovery time, meaning he will miss the remainder of the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Wieters was batting .308 with five homers and 18 RBI in 26 games before hitting the disabled list on May 10.<\/p>\n<p>With Wieters out, the Orioles will go with Caleb Joseph and Nick Hundley behind the plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore, MD (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Baltimore Orioles catcher Matt Wieters is scheduled to have reconstructive surgery Tuesday to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. Wieters is expected to need nine months of recovery time, meaning he will miss the remainder of the 2014 season. The 28-year-old Wieters was batting .308 with five [&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":[12,45,46],"class_list":["post-19721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-orioles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19721","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=19721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19729,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19721\/revisions\/19729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}