{"id":6636,"date":"2014-03-06T11:22:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T16:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6636"},"modified":"2014-03-06T11:22:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T16:22:42","slug":"cardinals-working-on-extension-with-matt-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/06\/cardinals-working-on-extension-with-matt-carpenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals working on extension with Matt Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6637\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6637\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/mattcarpenter.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/mattcarpenter.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/mattcarpenter-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The St. Louis Cardinals and third baseman Matt Carpenter are working on a multt-year contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>General manager John Mozeliak told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/sports\/baseball\/professional\/cards-talking-with-carpenter-about-contract-extension\/article_e28aa549-86af-52e6-9fa6-149836a10fce.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Post-Dispatch<\/a> on Wednesday evening that he had been in discussion with Carpenter&#8217;s agent.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">The 28-year-old Carpenter is not arbitration-<\/span>eligible<span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0until 2015. Still the Cardinals are hoping they can lock him up before his arbitration years kick in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Carpenter finished fourth in the National League MVP voting in 2013 after hitting .318\/.392\/.481 with a league-leading 55 doubles and 126 runs in 157 games. He is expected to lead off for the Cardinals again in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals and third baseman Matt Carpenter are working on a multt-year contract extension. General manager John Mozeliak told the Post-Dispatch on Wednesday evening that he had been in discussion with Carpenter&#8217;s agent. The 28-year-old Carpenter is not arbitration-eligible\u00a0until 2015. Still the Cardinals are hoping they can lock him up before his arbitration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[666,501,29],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-matt-carpenter","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636","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=6636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6638,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636\/revisions\/6638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6636"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}