{"id":823,"date":"2013-06-25T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/angels-vargas-to-have-blood-clot-removed\/"},"modified":"2013-06-25T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T17:28:00","slug":"angels-vargas-to-have-blood-clot-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/angels-vargas-to-have-blood-clot-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels&#8217; Vargas to have blood clot removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit, MI (Sports Network) &#8211; The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim announced before Tuesday&#8217;s game against the Detroit Tigers that left-handed pitcher Jason Vargas will have surgery to remove a blood clot from his left armpit on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Vargas, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list last Friday, has gone 6-4 with a 3.65 ERA in 14 starts this season, his first with the Angels after being acquired from the Mariners in an offseason trade.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure will shut him down for two weeks before he&#8217;s able to resume throwing again, at which point he should build back enough arm strength to return before the end of July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit, MI (Sports Network) &#8211; The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim announced before Tuesday&#8217;s game against the Detroit Tigers that left-handed pitcher Jason Vargas will have surgery to remove a blood clot from his left armpit on Wednesday. Vargas, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list last Friday, has gone 6-4 with a 3.65 [&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":[88,21,87],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-angels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}