{"id":364289,"date":"2025-12-22T10:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364289\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:05:07","slug":"report-red-sox-acquiring-1b-willson-contreras-from-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364289\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Red Sox acquiring 1B Willson Contreras from Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new first baseman in Beantown.<\/p>\n<p>In return, the Cardinals received a package centred around right-handed pitcher Hunter Dobbins and &#8220;minor league arms&#8221; as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/2002905765430837462\" rel=\"nofollow\">described by<\/a> Passan.<\/p>\n<p>Contreras, 33, made the move to first base after spending his last two seasons with St. Louis backstopping the plate.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time all-star was a mainstay of the Cardinals&#8217; lineup last season, slashing .257\/.344\/.447 for 20 homers and 80 RBI through 490 at-bats over 135 games.<\/p>\n<p>As for Dobbins, the 25-year-old made 13 appearances (11 starts) for the Red Sox last season, finishing with a 4-1 record as a rookie. The former eight-round pick in 2021 logged a 4.13 ERA through 61.0 innings, giving up 28 earned runs on 17 walks and 45 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Both Boston and St. Louis will be hoping for bounce-back campaigns after the move after missing out on the post-season. The Red Sox finished 2025 with an 89-73 record while placing third in the AL East. As for the Cardinals, they went 78-84 and were last in the NL Central.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a new first baseman in Beantown. In return, the Cardinals received a package centred around right-handed pitcher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-364289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}