{"id":551257,"date":"2026-02-03T00:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/551257\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:02:39","slug":"cardinals-colton-ledbetter-goes-to-st-louis-in-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/551257\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals&#8217; Colton Ledbetter: Goes to St. Louis in trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769793076_963_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/STL\/st-louis-cardinals\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/328.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/STL\/st-louis-cardinals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cardinals<\/a> acquired <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/29295922\/ledbetter\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ledbetter<\/a> from the Rays on Monday as part of a three-team trade involving the Mariners, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports.<\/p>\n<p>A second-round pick in the 2023 Draft, Ledbetter slashed .265\/.337\/.378 with seven home runs and 37 stolen bases over 123 contests at Double-A Montgomery in 2025. The 24-year-old is capable of handling all three outfield spots and could move up to Triple-A Memphis to begin the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cardinals acquired Ledbetter from the Rays on Monday as part of a three-team trade involving the Mariners,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,72607,28,4,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-551257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-colton-ledbetter","11":"tag-fantasy-baseball","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-st-louis","14":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","15":"tag-stlouis","16":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116003774517595616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551257","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=551257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}