{"id":639549,"date":"2026-03-23T20:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T20:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/639549\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T20:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T20:58:16","slug":"jj-wetherholt-to-make-cardinals-opening-day-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/639549\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Wetherholt To Make Cardinals&#8217; Opening Day Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infield prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=wether000jj-&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-23_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">JJ Wetherholt<\/a> has made the Cardinals\u2019 Opening Day roster. President of baseball operations Chaim Bloom passed the news along to reporters, including <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jmjones\/status\/2036180247624761681?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeff Jones of the Belleville News-Democrat<\/a>. Infielders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/saggeth01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-23_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thomas Saggese<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/fermijo01.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jos\u00e9 Ferm\u00edn<\/a> as well as outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/churcna01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-23_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nathan Church<\/a> will also break camp with the club, though outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/velazne01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-23_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nelson Vel\u00e1zquez<\/a> will be assigned to Triple-A Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Infield prospect JJ Wetherholt has made the Cardinals\u2019 Opening Day roster. President of baseball operations Chaim Bloom passed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,18050,3448,4,41261,17102,795],"class_list":["post-639549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-jj-wetherholt","tag-jose-fermin","tag-mlb","tag-nathan-church","tag-nelson-velazquez","tag-thomas-saggese"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116280499000254504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639549","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=639549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}