{"id":463388,"date":"2025-12-22T01:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/463388\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T01:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:55:13","slug":"boston-red-sox-trade-for-veteran-st-louis-cardinals-slugger-wilson-contreras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/463388\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox trade for veteran St. Louis Cardinals slugger Wilson Contreras"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Red Sox have made a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals for the second time this offseason, this time reportedly acquiring veteran slugger Wilson Contreras.<\/p>\n

Jeff Passan reported Sunday night<\/a> that the Red Sox landed the catcher, who also plays\u00a0first base and DH in Boston.<\/p>\n

Passan reported that the Red Sox will be sending righthanded pitcher Hunter Dobbins and other minor league pitchers to St. Louis in the deal.<\/p>\n

According to the MLB insider, St. Louis receives Yhoiker Fajardo and Blake Aita in the deal and will send the Red Sox $8 million. Contreras is due to make $41.5 million over the remainder of his contract. <\/p>\n

Earlier in the offseason, the Red Sox traded Richard Fitts and Brandon Clarke to the Cardinals in a deal to acquire veteran pitcher Sonny Gray.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Last year in St. Louis, Contreras had a .257 batting average, 20 home runs and 80 RBI in 135 games. <\/p>\n

Contreras spent the first seven years of his career with the Chicago Cubs before joining the Cardinals in 2023. The righty has a career batting average of .258 and 172 home runs to date.<\/p>\n

The veteran made the National League All-Star team three times in his career, all with the Cubs.<\/p>\n

Boston has yet to fully replace the bat of third baseman Rafael Devers, who was traded to the San Francisco Giants last year in a stunning trade.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Red Sox are hoping to improve a lineup that reached the postseason, but were eliminated in the Wild Card series by the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox have made a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals for the second time this…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":463389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1281,1266,62,3692,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-463388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-boston-red-sox","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115760734215136974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}