{"id":532116,"date":"2026-01-22T04:49:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/532116\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T04:49:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:49:49","slug":"molina-to-re-join-cardinals-as-special-assistant-to-chaim-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/532116\/","title":{"rendered":"Molina to re-join Cardinals as special assistant to Chaim Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Matrix Midwest) &#8211; Cardinals great Yadier Molina will be joining the Cardinals front office, the team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Molina will be a special assistant to President of Baseball Operations Chaim Bloom, advising the front office, helping the coaching staff and catchers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Molina was a 10-time All Star, 11-time gold-glove winner and the only player in MLB history to catch 2,00 games or more for one team. He retired after the 2022 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Molina briefly returned to the Cards dugout in 2025 as a guest coach and managed Criollos de Caguas in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Matrix Midwest. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Matrix Midwest) &#8211; Cardinals great Yadier Molina will be joining the Cardinals front office, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[70519,5,160,10149,7285,4,3607,673,67,4311,4310,7269],"class_list":["post-532116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-advise","tag-baseball","tag-cardinals","tag-chaim-bloom","tag-front-office","tag-mlb","tag-return","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals","tag-yadier-molina"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115936953887431818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}