{"id":2523,"date":"2013-07-17T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bucs-ink-k-tynes-to-replace-injured-barth\/"},"modified":"2013-07-17T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T11:39:00","slug":"bucs-ink-k-tynes-to-replace-injured-barth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bucs-ink-k-tynes-to-replace-injured-barth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs ink K Tynes to replace injured Barth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have announced that kicker Connor Barth will miss the upcoming season after undergoing surgery Monday to repair a torn Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n<p>Barth, who will placed on the non-football injury list, suffered the injury in his hometown of Wilmington, NC, last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Buccaneers replaced Barth by signing veteran Lawrence Tynes to a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are disappointed to lose a productive player like Connor, but are very fortunate to be able to sign an experienced kicker at this time of year,&#8221; Buccaneers general manager Mark Dominik said in a statement Wednesday. &#8220;Lawrence and his agent, Ken Harris, had other standing opportunities, but we are pleased that they thought this was the right place for Lawrence to continue his career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tynes played the last six seasons with the New York Giants, winning two Super Bowls. The 35-year-old has converted 190-of-233 field goals in 129 career games with the Kansas City Chiefs and Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have announced that kicker Connor Barth will miss the upcoming season after undergoing surgery Monday to repair a torn Achilles tendon. Barth, who will placed on the non-football injury list, suffered the injury in his hometown of Wilmington, NC, last Friday. The Buccaneers replaced Barth 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":[2],"tags":[68,67,66],"class_list":["post-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-buccaneers","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","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=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}