{"id":7607,"date":"2014-05-07T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7607"},"modified":"2014-05-07T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T15:58:08","slug":"could-cardinals-be-forced-to-add-david-aardsma-to-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/07\/could-cardinals-be-forced-to-add-david-aardsma-to-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Cardinals be forced to add David Aardsma to roster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7608\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/davidaardsma.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/davidaardsma.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/davidaardsma-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe St. Louis Cardinals have David Aardsma in their minor leagues which is good for their depth but it could be only a matter of time before they are forced to make a decision on the relief pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>According to Steve Adams of MLBTradeRumors.com, Aardsma has a May 15 opt-out date on his current minor league deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source: David Aardsma has a 5\/15 opt-out date in his current deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23stlcards&amp;src=hash\">#stlcards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steve Adams (@Adams_Steve) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Adams_Steve\/statuses\/464061511443304449\">May 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Though his first 13 2\/3 innings of work Aardsma holds a 1.98 ERA and 12 strikeouts at Triple-A Memphis. It would appear that Aardsma would exercise his opt-out if he is not called up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals have David Aardsma in their minor leagues which is good for their depth but it could be only a matter of time before they are forced to make a decision on the relief pitcher. According to Steve Adams of MLBTradeRumors.com, Aardsma has a May 15 opt-out date on his current minor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[739,29],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-david-aardsma","9":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7609,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions\/7609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7607"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}