{"id":5252,"date":"2013-11-20T19:54:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T00:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2013-11-20T19:55:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T00:55:21","slug":"cardinals-extend-matheny-carpenter-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/11\/20\/cardinals-extend-matheny-carpenter-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals extend Matheny, Carpenter to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The St. Louis Cardinals have re-signed manager Mike Matheny to a three-year contract extension. Matheny was already locked up through 2013, but now the Cards will have him until 2017. \u00a0He owns a 185-139 record over his first two seasons as a big league manager.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Carpenter is retiring from baseball at the age of 38. Carpenter\u00a0attempted to make a comeback \u00a0in early 2013, but had to shut things down again after feeling \u00a0numbness in his throwing hand.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter is a 2005 NL Cy Young Award winner and decided to call it a career with a 144-94 lifetime record to go along with a 3.76 ERA. He is expected to remain with the organization in a yet-to-be announced position.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter made 10.5 million in 2013 and was set to become a free agent in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals have re-signed manager Mike Matheny to a three-year contract extension. Matheny was already locked up through 2013, but now the Cards will have him until 2017. \u00a0He owns a 185-139 record over his first two seasons as a big league manager. Chris Carpenter is retiring from baseball at the age of [&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":[501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252","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=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/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=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}