{"id":362855,"date":"2025-12-22T01:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362855\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T01:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:54:08","slug":"boston-red-sox-trade-for-veteran-st-louis-cardinals-slugger-wilson-contreras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362855\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox trade for veteran St. Louis Cardinals slugger Wilson Contreras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox have made a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals for the second time this offseason, this time reportedly acquiring veteran slugger Wilson Contreras.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Passan <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/2002910072595456349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported Sunday night<\/a> that the Red Sox landed the catcher, who also plays\u00a0first base and DH in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Passan reported that the Red Sox will be sending righthanded pitcher Hunter Dobbins and other minor league pitchers to St. Louis in the deal.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MLB insider, St. Louis receives Yhoiker Fajardo and Blake Aita in the deal and will send the Red Sox $8 million. Contreras is due to make $41.5 million over the remainder of his contract. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the offseason, the Red Sox traded Richard Fitts and Brandon Clarke to the Cardinals in a deal to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/sonny-gray-trade-red-sox-cardinals-mlb\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">acquire veteran pitcher Sonny Gray.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Last year in St. Louis, Contreras had a .257 batting average, 20 home runs and 80 RBI in 135 games. <\/p>\n<p>Contreras spent the first seven years of his career with the Chicago Cubs before joining the Cardinals in 2023. The righty has a career batting average of .258 and 172 home runs to date.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran made the National League All-Star team three times in his career, all with the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Boston has yet to fully replace the bat of third baseman Rafael Devers, who was traded to the San Francisco Giants last year in a stunning trade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox are hoping to improve a lineup that reached the postseason, but were eliminated in the Wild Card series by the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox have made a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals for the second time this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[374,363,99,1231],"class_list":["post-362855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362855","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=362855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}