{"id":3588,"date":"2013-08-14T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-shelf-hefner-with-partially-torn-mcl-in-elbow\/"},"modified":"2013-08-14T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T19:16:00","slug":"mets-shelf-hefner-with-partially-torn-mcl-in-elbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-shelf-hefner-with-partially-torn-mcl-in-elbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets shelf Hefner with partially torn MCL in elbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Mets placed struggling right-hander Jeremy Hefner on the 15-day disabled list with a partially torn MCL in his pitching elbow on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hefner had been complaining of lingering pain in the affected area, with the 27-year-old pitching to an 0-2 record and a 9.13 ERA in five starts since the All-Star break. An MRI taken on Wednesday revealed the extent of the injury.<\/p>\n<p>His move to the disabled list is retroactive to Aug. 10. He had been optioned to Triple-A Las Vegas on Sunday in order to open up a roster spot for pitcher Jonathon Niese.<\/p>\n<p>Hefner has started all but one of the 24 games he&#8217;s pitched in this season, accumulating a 4-8 record with a 4.34 earned run average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Mets placed struggling right-hander Jeremy Hefner on the 15-day disabled list with a partially torn MCL in his pitching elbow on Wednesday. Hefner had been complaining of lingering pain in the affected area, with the 27-year-old pitching to an 0-2 record and a 9.13 ERA 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-3588","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\/3588","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=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}