{"id":1786,"date":"2013-03-27T19:36:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T23:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2013-03-27T19:36:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T23:36:50","slug":"cardinals-sign-five-year-extension-with-wainwright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/03\/27\/cardinals-sign-five-year-extension-with-wainwright\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals sign five-year extension with Wainwright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/adamwainwright.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1776\" alt=\"adamwainwright\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/adamwainwright.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/adamwainwright.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/adamwainwright-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The St. Louis Cardinals have agreed on a five-year extension with starting pitcher Adam Wainwright. Set to be a free agent at the end of the season the ace pitcher and team had set a deadline of Opening Day to work out a new deal.<\/p>\n<p>Wainwright&#8217;s new deal will pay him $97.5 million over the next five seasons.<\/p>\n<p>In his first year back from Tommy John surgery the now 31-year-old hardly skipped a beat recording a 3.94 ERA in 198 2\/3 innings while striking out 184.<\/p>\n<p>Wainwright will be expected to improve on those numbers in his second year back from surgery and with the loss of Chris Carpenter for the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals have agreed on a five-year extension with starting pitcher Adam Wainwright. Set to be a free agent at the end of the season the ace pitcher and team had set a deadline of Opening Day to work out a new deal. Wainwright&#8217;s new deal will pay him $97.5 million over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[252],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-adam-wainwright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","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=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}