{"id":24914,"date":"2014-10-24T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cardinals-ace-wainwright-has-elbow-surgery\/"},"modified":"2014-10-24T22:40:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T22:40:17","slug":"cardinals-ace-wainwright-has-elbow-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cardinals-ace-wainwright-has-elbow-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals ace Wainwright has elbow surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; St. Louis Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright underwent surgery on his right elbow on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The club revealed that the 33-year-old submitted to a procedure which trimmed cartilage from his right pitching elbow. After an initial MRI failed to reveal any significant issue, Wainwright pushed for a second MRI and the results spurred the decision to go under the knife.<\/p>\n<p>Wainwright finished the 2013 season with a 20-9 record and 2.38 earned run average in 227 innings over 32 starts for the NL Central champions.<\/p>\n<p>He missed a turn in the rotation in mid-June due to trouble with the elbow, though an MRI taken then revealed no structural damage to the ligament which was replaced with Tommy John surgery in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; St. Louis Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright underwent surgery on his right elbow on Friday. The club revealed that the 33-year-old submitted to a procedure which trimmed cartilage from his right pitching elbow. After an initial MRI failed to reveal any significant issue, Wainwright pushed for a second MRI and the [&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":[99,98,97],"class_list":["post-24914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-cardinals","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24914","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=24914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24921,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24914\/revisions\/24921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}