{"id":305117,"date":"2025-11-25T03:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305117\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T03:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:44:09","slug":"cardinals-sign-28-year-old-catcher-after-most-active-mlb-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305117\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals sign 28-year old catcher after most active MLB season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/st-louis-cardinals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> have reunited with a familiar face.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve signed catcher Yohel Pozo to a new contract to keep him around for the 2026 MLB season, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dgoold\/status\/1993035794735653131\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to beat reporter Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pozo is a 28-year old who set career bests with both 68 games and 188 plate appearances during the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>He hit .231 with a .375 slugging percentage, although he did show a knack for pinch-hitting.<\/p>\n<p>In his MLB career, Pozo has batted .248 with six home runs in 245 plate appearances.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been a much better hitter in his Triple-A career at .321 with a .525 slugging percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Pozo is also a pretty quality defensive catcher, which is something you want in a guy who projects at best as a backup.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals have catchers likely ahead of Pozo. Ivan Herrera, Jimmy Crooks and even Pedro Pages are also in the MLB catching picture.<\/p>\n<p>Pozo has minor league options that can be used, so he&#8217;ll be a flexible option for the Cardinals to move up and down from Triple-A Memphis if they want.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis has lots more to do this offseason. They may trade away a veteran or two as they look to head into a new era.<\/p>\n<p>But at least they know they&#8217;ve got more than enough catchers to choose from.<\/p>\n<p>More news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Cardinals have reunited with a familiar face. They&#8217;ve signed catcher Yohel Pozo to a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-305117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}