{"id":22275,"date":"2013-07-02T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T21:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=22275"},"modified":"2013-07-02T16:25:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T21:25:32","slug":"twins-place-willingham-on-15-day-d-l-recall-hicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=22275","title":{"rendered":"Twins Place Willingham on 15 Day D.L., Recall Hicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/hicksarron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22280\" alt=\"Chicago White Sox v Minnesota Twins\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/hicksarron.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP Jul 2, 2013) &#8211; Minnesota Twins slugger Josh Willingham has been placed on the 15-day disabled list with a torn meniscus in his left knee.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Twins announced the move on Tuesday, one day after Willingham was scratched after feeling discomfort in his knee during pregame warmups. The Twins say he also has a bone bruise on the knee.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Willingham has struggled this season coming off of a career year last year. He is hitting .224 with 10 homers and 37 RBIs. The injury depletes an already thin Twins outfield and left them with few options.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Twins were hoping to let Aaron Hicks get some extended at-bats at Triple-A Rochester during a rehab assignment. Instead, he&#8217;s been recalled after hitting .190 in six games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP Jul 2, 2013) &#8211; Minnesota Twins slugger Josh Willingham has been placed on the 15-day disabled list with a torn meniscus in his left knee. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Twins announced the move on Tuesday, one day after Willingham was scratched after feeling discomfort in his knee during pregame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275","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=22275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22281,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275\/revisions\/22281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}