{"id":3491,"date":"2013-07-09T15:26:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T19:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2013-07-09T15:26:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T19:26:41","slug":"cardinals-release-ty-wigginton-call-up-rob-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/09\/cardinals-release-ty-wigginton-call-up-rob-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals release Ty Wigginton, call up Rob Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3492\" alt=\"wiggington\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/wiggington.jpg\" width=\"467\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/wiggington.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/wiggington-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The St. Louis Cardinals have called up catcher Rob Johnson from Triple-A Memphis. Johnson will replace Ty Wigginton on the active roster.<\/p>\n<p>Wigginton, 35, signed a two-year deal with the Cardinals in the offseason but had only 57 at-bats for the club prior to his release.<\/p>\n<p>During his stay with the Cardinals, Wigginton appeared in 47 games hitting .158\/.,238\/.193 with 3 RBI. He can be signed for the prorated major league minimum.<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of Johnson the Cardinals have three catchers on their active roster. All-Star Yadier Molina is currently dealing with a knee issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals have called up catcher Rob Johnson from Triple-A Memphis. Johnson will replace Ty Wigginton on the active roster. Wigginton, 35, signed a two-year deal with the Cardinals in the offseason but had only 57 at-bats for the club prior to his release. During his stay with the Cardinals, Wigginton appeared in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-3491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}