{"id":9093,"date":"2026-07-17T11:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/?p=9093"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:12:50","slug":"twiwbl-97-1-early-spring-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/2026\/07\/17\/twiwbl-97-1-early-spring-training\/","title":{"rendered":"TWIWBL 97.1: Early Spring Training"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ll have a team by team season preview as Spring Training runs down, but here are some newsworthy tidbits from the early days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">#Homestead Grays<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Grays have lost their staff ace&#8211;or what has passed for a staff ace&#8211;as <strong>Francisco Liriano<\/strong> suffered a torn labrum, and will miss 5-6 months, putting him on the shelf for effectively the whole season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">#Memphis Red Sox<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Red Sox execute the very first waiver claim in WBL history (this is part of what Claude&#8217;s involvement enables), grabbing veteran P <strong>Paul Derringer<\/strong> from Indianapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll have a team by team season preview as Spring Training runs down, but here are some newsworthy tidbits from the early days. #Homestead Grays The Grays have lost their staff ace&#8211;or what has passed for a staff ace&#8211;as Francisco Liriano suffered a torn labrum, and will miss 5-6 months, putting him on the shelf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[416,1],"tags":[485,5,315,687],"class_list":["post-9093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twiwbl","category-uncategorized","tag-francisco-liriano","tag-homestead-grays","tag-memphis-red-sox","tag-paul-derringer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9122,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions\/9122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbl.dmlco.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}