{"id":11606,"date":"2013-01-28T11:57:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T17:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=11606"},"modified":"2013-01-28T11:57:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T17:57:46","slug":"pavano-has-spleen-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=11606","title":{"rendered":"Pavano Has Spleen Removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By RONALD BLUM<br \/>\n\u00a0AP Sports Writer Jan 28, 2013<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pitcher Carl Pavano is in a Connecticut hospital following the removal of his spleen. He was injured when he fell in snow at his home in Vermont.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The pitcher&#8217;s agent said Monday the accident happened in mid-January. When Pavano didn&#8217;t feel well after a workout in Connecticut, the 37-year-old right-hander went to a hospital and was diagnosed with a lacerated spleen.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Agent David Pepe said doctors were not able to control bleeding, and Pavano&#8217;s spleen was removed last week. Pepe hopes Pavano will be released from the hospital this week. He would not put a timetable on the free agent&#8217;s possible return to baseball.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pavano spent the last 3 1-2 seasons with the Minnesota Twins, going 2-5 with a 6.00 ERA in 11 starts last year. He didn&#8217;t pitch after June 1 because of a strained right shoulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By RONALD BLUM \u00a0AP Sports Writer Jan 28, 2013 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pitcher Carl Pavano is in a Connecticut hospital following the removal of his spleen. He was injured when he fell in snow at his home in Vermont. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The pitcher&#8217;s agent said Monday the accident happened in mid-January. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11608,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606\/revisions\/11608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}