{"id":2775,"date":"2013-07-23T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-release-p-marcum\/"},"modified":"2013-07-23T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:36:00","slug":"mets-release-p-marcum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-release-p-marcum\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets release P Marcum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Mets placed pitcher Shaun Marcum on waivers for purposes of his unconditional release on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Marcum was placed on the disabled list on July 9 after being diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome, which is a blockage in an artery that has caused lingering pain and numbness in his pitching hand, neck and upper back.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Marcum underwent successful surgery to address the injury, but will not be available to pitch this season, causing the Mets to release the right hander.<\/p>\n<p>Marcum&#8217;s 2013 season did not begin until late April, when he was activated from the 15-day DL after being sidelined with a neck injury.<\/p>\n<p>Things did not go well from there, as he pitched to a 1-10 record and 5.29 earned run average in 14 games (12 starts).<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old signed with the Mets in January after spending the previous two years with the Milwaukee Brewers, going 20-11 with a 3.60 ERA in 54 starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Mets placed pitcher Shaun Marcum on waivers for purposes of his unconditional release on Tuesday. Marcum was placed on the disabled list on July 9 after being diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome, which is a blockage in an artery that has caused lingering pain and numbness in [&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":[187,59,186],"class_list":["post-2775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775","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=2775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}