{"id":362800,"date":"2025-12-22T01:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362800\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T01:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:07:07","slug":"sources-red-sox-to-acquire-willson-contreras-in-trade-with-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362800\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Red Sox to acquire Willson Contreras in trade with Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 21, 2025, 08:03 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c6df06f6-785d-3900-4935-5fd13742e2ee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> are acquiring first baseman <a data-player-guid=\"e739e323-7ff4-bc6c-de71-f48ffcfaa329\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32532\/willson-contreras\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Willson Contreras<\/a> in a trade with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c781e7c6-2c5b-beaf-55b8-999c76f76661\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/stl\/st-louis-cardinals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a>, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Contreras, a three-time All-Star, hit .257 with a team-leading 20 home runs and 80 RBIs in 135 games for the Cardinals last season. The former catcher, who had a full no-trade clause in his contract, has two years left and is owed $36.5 million and a $5 million buyout for the 2028 season.<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander <a data-player-guid=\"751afbf1-ebe8-31fd-b0a1-5dec0c6f03a5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4415836\/hunter-dobbins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Dobbins<\/a> is the headliner in the package going back to St. Louis for Contreras, sources told ESPN. The Cardinals also will be receiving minor league pitchers in the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 21, 2025, 08:03 PM ET The Boston Red Sox are acquiring first baseman Willson Contreras in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-362800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}