{"id":28100,"date":"2013-09-23T16:43:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T21:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=28100"},"modified":"2013-09-23T16:44:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T21:44:16","slug":"twins-shutdown-mauer-rest-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=28100","title":{"rendered":"Twins Shutdown Mauer, Rest Of Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/willinghamjosh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22276\" alt=\"Minnesota Twins v Cleveland Indians\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/willinghamjosh-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP Sept 23, 2013) &#8211; The Minnesota Twins are shutting down All-Star catcher Joe Mauer for the rest of the season while he recovers from a concussion.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Twins made the decision on Monday before starting the final seven-game homestand of the season. General manager Terry Ryan and Mauer both say that the former AL MVP is making progress. But they don&#8217;t want to take any unnecessary risks with the Twins far out of contention in the AL Central.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mauer hasn&#8217;t played since Aug. 19. He was injured while catching when he took a foul tip off of his mask.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mauer says he is disappointed that he won&#8217;t be able to finish the season on the field. But he says he still plans on playing catcher as his primary position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP Sept 23, 2013) &#8211; The Minnesota Twins are shutting down All-Star catcher Joe Mauer for the rest of the season while he recovers from a concussion. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Twins made the decision on Monday before starting the final seven-game homestand of the season. General manager Terry Ryan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28100","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=28100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28104,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28100\/revisions\/28104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}