{"id":1666,"date":"2013-03-18T14:30:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T18:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2013-03-18T14:30:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T18:30:31","slug":"chris-carpenter-says-he-is-unlikely-to-pitch-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/03\/18\/chris-carpenter-says-he-is-unlikely-to-pitch-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Carpenter says he is unlikely to pitch again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/chriscarpenter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1299\" alt=\"chriscarpenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/chriscarpenter.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/chriscarpenter.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/chriscarpenter-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter says he may never take the mound again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do (want to keep playing),&#8221; Carpenter said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter, 38, was placed on the 60-day disabled list last month after he experienced nerve irritation in his shoulder. The Cardinals have already ruled the former Cy Young Award winner out for the entire 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old right-hander was placed on the 60-day disabled list in February with nerve irritation in his shoulder and has already been ruled out for the entire 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter has yet to announce his formal retirement and that is largely due to the $12.5 million that is left on his contract.<\/p>\n<p>If this is the end of Carpenter he ends his 15 year career with a 144-94 record and a 3.76 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter says he may never take the mound again. &#8220;I do (want to keep playing),&#8221; Carpenter said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I can.&#8221; Carpenter, 38, was placed on the 60-day disabled list last month after he experienced nerve irritation in his shoulder. The Cardinals have already ruled the former Cy Young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[233],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chris-carpenter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","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=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}