{"id":364452,"date":"2025-12-22T11:51:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364452\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:51:05","slug":"red-sox-add-first-baseman-in-trade-with-cardinals-98-5-the-sports-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364452\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox add first baseman in trade with Cardinals &#8211; 98.5 The Sports Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sox have made it very well known that they have been in pursuit of an offensive weapon their lineup, and on Sunday night they made a strong move to acquire one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/2002902911681171573?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan<\/a>, Boston traded for St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Wilson Contreras. Contreras, a three-time All Star, spent most of the 2025 season at first for the Cardinals but also has experience behind the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Going to St. Louis as part of the trade is pitcher Hunter Dobbins. The righty is coming off a torn ACL last spring, but the Cardinals clearly see upside in the 26-year-old arm. St. Louis will also be receiving right-handed pitchers Blake Aita and Yhoiker Fajardo. <\/p>\n<p>Contreras had a strong 2025 at the plate, batting .257 while racking up 20 home runs and 80 RBIs.\u00a0The right-handed batter should provide a major boost from that side of the plate in the Boston lineup. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox have made it very well known that they have been in pursuit of an offensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,5156,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-364452","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-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364452","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=364452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}