{"id":6512,"date":"2014-02-25T09:51:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T14:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6512"},"modified":"2014-02-25T09:51:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T14:51:28","slug":"cardinals-to-reduce-yadier-molinas-sprint-workload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/25\/cardinals-to-reduce-yadier-molinas-sprint-workload\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals to reduce Yadier Molina&#8217;s sprint workload"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6513\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6513\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/yadiermolina.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/yadiermolina.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/yadiermolina-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yadier Molina will not play the first handful of spring training games for the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals want to give Molina a break during spring action so he will be healthy for the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll probably go a little slow getting him started,\u201d Matheny said, via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/sports\/baseball\/professional\/article_e6dee117-1d36-5290-ab5e-ac500998faf4.html#.UwypbbUgL9c.twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">St. Louis Dispatch<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a long way to go and he looks good. When we start talking about trying to conserve we could do that from the start, do that at the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The six-time Gold Glove winner has been a steady presence behind the plate for the Cardinals. He led the National League in innings caught last season.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis has stressed that there is nothing wrong with Molina, and that he should be able to get more than enough trips to the plate before the season begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yadier Molina will not play the first handful of spring training games for the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals want to give Molina a break during spring action so he will be healthy for the regular season. \u201cWe\u2019ll probably go a little slow getting him started,\u201d Matheny said, via the St. Louis Dispatch. \u201cWe\u2019ve got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[501,29,441],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","10":"tag-yadier-molina"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512","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=6512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}