{"id":11980,"date":"2020-01-19T18:43:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T23:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11980"},"modified":"2020-01-19T18:43:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T23:43:15","slug":"matt-wieters-re-signs-with-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2020\/01\/19\/matt-wieters-re-signs-with-cardinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Wieters re-signs with Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0066.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0066.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0066-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0066-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0066-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0066-696x464.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0066-1068x712.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0066-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals have signed catcher Matt Wieters to a new one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jon Heyman, Wieters will make $2 million next season while serving as the backup to Yadier Molina. Another $1 million come come visit incentives.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Matt Wieters will be signing back with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/STLCards?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#STLCards<\/a>. 2M plus 1M incentives.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/1218952737863405569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wieters appeared in 67 games last season hitting .214:.268\/.435 but offered 12 hone runs.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals were the only team seriously linked to Wieters. His re-signing should allow Andrew Knizner to get more playing time at Triple-A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cardinals have signed catcher Matt Wieters to a new one-year deal. According to Jon Heyman, Wieters will make $2 million next season while serving as the backup to Yadier Molina. Another $1 million come come visit incentives. Matt Wieters will be signing back with #STLCards. 2M plus 1M incentives. \u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,631,501,29],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-matt-wieters","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11981,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980\/revisions\/11981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11980"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}