{"id":23794,"date":"2014-09-21T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-activate-tanaka\/"},"modified":"2014-09-21T19:17:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T19:17:23","slug":"yankees-activate-tanaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-activate-tanaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees activate Tanaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka was activated off the 60-day disabled list Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Tanaka had been sidelined since early July with a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. Doctors recommended rehab rather than Tommy John surgery and the rookie began a throwing program before pitching an instructional league game in Tampa on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees opened a roster spot Sunday by designating pitcher Chaz Roe for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Tanaka, who signed a seven-year, $155 million contract with the Yankees in January, entered Sunday&#8217;s game against Toronto with a mark of 12-4 and a 2.51 ERA in 18 starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka was activated off the 60-day disabled list Sunday. Tanaka had been sidelined since early July with a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. Doctors recommended rehab rather than Tommy John surgery and the rookie began a throwing program before pitching an instructional [&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":[59,58,60],"class_list":["post-23794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794","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=23794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23796,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794\/revisions\/23796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}